Escaping From Reality Quotes

In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.

~ Lev Grossman

Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.

~ E. Leo Foster

A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room – there'd been no lock – and lose herself in books.

~ Dianna Hardy

The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.

~ April Mae Monterrosa

Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.

~ Dan Pearce