Inner Escape Quotes

This silent call you make, A silence so loud I fear the world knows it's meaning If you fill every corner of a room Where can I look? If I close my eyes the silence becomes louder! There is no escape from you The only way out is in

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

I love anything that gets me outside of my own head.

We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

He who tries to flee from God takes refuge in himself.

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Throughout theological history we have been assured by religious leaders that if we perform certain rituals, repeat certain prayers or mantras, conform to certain patterns, suppress our desires, control our thoughts, sublimate our passions, limit our appetites and refrain from sexual indulgence, we shall, after sufficient torture of the mind and body, find something beyond this little life. And that is what millions of so-called religious people have done through the ages, either in isolation, going off into the desert or into the mountains or a cave or wandering from village to village with a begging bowl, or, in a group, joining a monastery, forcing their minds to conform to an established pattern. But a tortured mind, a broken mind, a mind which wants to escape from all turmoil, which has denied the outer world and been made dull through discipline and conformity—such a mind, however long it seeks, will find only according to its own distortion.

My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.