Alex Garland Quotes

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

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.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

If they will let me go, I would leave Israel immediately. I would like to see the world, to exercise my freedom.

I shall go the way of the open sea, to the lands I knew before you came, and the cool ocean breezes shall blow from me the memory of your name.

The only thing I'm running for is the state line.

I'd like to fly.

Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!

The only certain freedom's in departure.

I can go back to Egypt anytime I want. Can I leave Egypt anytime I want? I think I can. I think I can.

It shall be lawful to any person, for the future, to go out of our kingdom, and to return, safely and securely ...

I'm out of Russia and have no plans to go back.

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

I just want to show other young kids growing up that it is not about just staying in England, getting loans. Explore.

I'm doing great in England.

Wanting to leave is enough.

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

Thank God and Greyhound you're gone.

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

Leaving feels too good, once you leave.

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.