Have you recently thought something like, "I wanna go away for a while?" A break from everyday life is sometimes essential, so if you're thinking about going away, I support you. In order to rest and recharge your batteries, you will have to spend some time alone. It could be a remote, quiet place, or you can travel to a different city. These quotes about getting away can give you enough motivation to finally set off and get some quality rest. Don't feel bad about it; you need it, and you will be as good as new when you get back.
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"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." ー Anaïs Nin.
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"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." ー W. Somerset Maugham.
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"The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison." ー Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them." ー Michael Bassey Johnson.
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"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality." ー Shirley Jackson.
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"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure." ー Alexandre Dumas.
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"Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape." ー William S. Burroughs.
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"I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that." ー Victoria Schwab.
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"You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination." ー Roman Payne.
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"That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely." ー Jennifer L. Armentrout.
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"The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that has been tugging at me with disconcerting frequency these days." ー Maggie Stiefvater.
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"I want to run. To do what I always do, have always done, for the last five years of my life. Escape, flee into the shadows. But this time, I stand my ground. I'm tired of running." ー Marie Lu.
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"Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie." ー Eckhart Tolle.
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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book." ー David Mitchell.
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"Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled." ー Prophet Mohammed.
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"A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind." ー Michael Bassey Johnson.
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"You've gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and you're studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back." ー Jennifer Echols.
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"To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world." ー Dōgen.
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"Escape is a commodity like anything else." ー Iain M. Bank.
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"We often fully sense and relish the radiance of happiness only after it has escaped through the backstage door, stealthily and silently." ー Erik Pevernagie.
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"This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world." ー Michael Ondaatje.
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"I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself." ー Rabih Alameddine.
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"By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape." ー Thomas Wolfe.
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"Have we ever thought that being lost is our destination?" ー Craig D. Lounsbrough.
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"Leaving what is safe so you can be more, Derek said. The cage is what the bird knows; the sky is all the things he still wants to do even if it's a risk." ー Ilona Andrews.
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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all the imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm." ー Ella Maillart.
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"I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall." ー Arthur Conan Doyle.
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"You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive." ー Bella Pollen.
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"Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." ー Kurt Vonnegut.
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"A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander." ー Roman Payne.
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"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." ー Jack Kerouac.
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"I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil." ー Heather Day Gilbert.
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"Why escape your intended purpose by copying and trying to be someone else? You will discover who you were meant to be only after you have shown confidence being yourself." ー Suzy Kassem.
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"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it." ー Roland Barthes.
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"The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it." ー Robert Anthony.
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"I've heard an airplane passing overhead. I wish I was on it." ー Charles Bukowski.
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"I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere in the world. Then I ask myself the same question." ー Harun Yahya.
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"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." ー Saint Augustine.
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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." ー Robert Louis Stevenson.
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"Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…" ー Jack Kerouac.
Summary
When I just want to go away for a while, I always get inspired by quotes and sayings like these ones. They always motivate me to move a lot more. Also, "I want to escape" quotes can give you some nice ideas about where to go or what to do.