Temporary Reprieve Quotes

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

I cannot escape the feeling that I was, at best, a cancer tourist, that my survival means I dabbled.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

They give us access to another world, they give us access to dreams. It's our way of living in a different realm for a short period of time - and how beautiful is that?

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

To be honest, acting was something where I got a chance to be somebody else and forget about the situation I was in.

That's what's beautiful about sports in general is you give someone a bat, a ball, a piece of sporting equipment and what it does to help them just be better people, 'to get out of whatever situation they might be in temporarily for that moment, to be whoever they want to be.

In 1916 I was discharged from military service, or rather, given a sort of leave of absence on the understanding that I might be recalled within a few months. And so I was a free man, at least for a while.

... He had always rather liked emergencies. Other people's at any rate. They put your own problems into perspective. It was like being on a ferry. You didn't have to think about what you had to do or where you had to go for the next few hours. It was all laid out for you.

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Never such innocence, Never before or since, As changed itself to past Without a word--the men Leaving the gardens tidy, The thousands of marriages Lasting a little while longer: Never such innocence again.

Cash is cold comfort under these circumstances. But make no mistake about it; It is some comfort.

There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions, you've got all this stuff to digest.

When times are tough, people want to escape to somewhere fantastic without having to pay actual escape-to-somewhere-fantastic cash. And offering a couple of hours away from the ordinary is what the movies do best.

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.

It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom.