Top 37 Quotes About Escape Travel
#2. How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.
Matt Haig
#3. I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.
Paul Theroux
#4. Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.
Dave McClure
#6. Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
J. Maarten Troost
#7. For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.
Rebecca Skloot
#8. Something inexorable seeds itself in the place of your origin. You can never escape the bonds of family history, no matter how far you travel.
Christina Baker Kline
#9. We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness.
Esther Earl
#10. If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
Simon Van Booy
#12. She's happy to be home but being home means that it's an end to her adventure and escape.
S.A. Tawks
#14. This was a big country needing big men and women to live in it, and there was no place out here for the frightened or the mean.
Louis L'Amour
#15. Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
Alex Garland
#16. The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security ... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.
Baruch Spinoza
#17. You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.
Jen Campbell
#18. I cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#19. Everyone wanted to get to someplace better, wherever that was.
Kenneth Eade
#20. Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.
Max Barry
#22. In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#23. I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.
Roger Ebert
#24. I'd need rest to refresh my brain, and to get rest it's necessary to travel, and to travel one must have money, and in order to get money you have to work ... I am in a vicious circle ... from which it is impossible to escape.
Honore De Balzac
#25. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.
Anonymous
#26. If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.
Seneca.
#27. What ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.
Alain De Botton
#28. We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#30. The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.
Jean-Christophe Rufin
#31. Reading was my only escape from reality. Through books, I could be whoever I wanted. I could fall in love with the handsome prince, travel to exotic places, and take the leap that almost always had a happy ending.
Teresa Mummert
#32. ...That's the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can't help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it.
Harry Whitewolf
#33. Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.
Winston Churchill
#34. Travel has always been my way of defeating this sinking feeling, partly because travel is a form of escape, and travel itself - the elemental farewell - becomes the fugitive fantasy of a new life, travel inspiring a sense of hope. I
Paul Theroux
#35. I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs ... So actually becoming a runaway was crucial. I had this idea that I'd make my way across the frontier and find my story as it was actually happening in the landscape.
Justine Kurland
#36. Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.
Martin Rees
#37. I've always been interested in medicine and was pleased when my brother became a doctor. But after thinking seriously about that field, I realized that what intrigued me was not the science, not the chemistry or biology of medicine, but the narrative - the story of each patient, each illness.
Lois Lowry
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