Everybody past a certain age regardless of how they look on the outside pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But of course only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it even if you completely disagree with it you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.
I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.