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Scripture · Religious literature

Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Psalm 55:6

450 BC

★ 1.9

Novel · Satire

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt · 1922

★ 1.9

Novel

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Aldous Huxley

1954

★ 3.5

Song · Folk · Pop

I wish I had a river I could skate away on I wish I had a river so long I would teach my feet to fly

Joni Mitchell

River · 1971

★ 3.7

Film · Drama (film) · Drama

Dear God, make me a bird. So I could fly far, far far away from here.

Jenny Curran

Forrest Gump · 1994

★ 3.8

Novel · Children's literature · Adventure novel

I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn · 1884

★ 3.9

Song · Rock music

We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Bruce Springsteen

Born to Run (song) · 1975

★ 5.5

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