#escape

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. ↗

— Anais Nin

#bird #coffee #escape #fire #i

I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#escape #haunted #memory #poetry #skeletons

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

#believes #built #church #conquered #death

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. ↗

— Ellis Peters

#birth #common #cowards #death #escape

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape. ↗

— M. Night Shyamalan

#escape #ever #feeling #form #go

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#arrest #because #berlin #burning #catch

I write to escape; to escape poverty. ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

#i #i write #poverty #write

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness. ↗

— Huey Newton

#being #bring #chamber #community #consciousness

Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head. ↗

— Paul Auster

#choice #comfort #comsolation #escape #pleasure

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is. ↗

— H.M. Forester

#escape #reality #death