Escapism Quotes

Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves.

~ Kelli Russell Agodon

Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

~ Gena Showalter

The doorbell rings and I sink into a heap on the carpet. With any luck, whoever is down there will just go away. But I’m just starting to think nothing goes away, no matter how deep you try to bury it.

~ Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

~ James Lusarde

I had drunk myself to oblivion,Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber,My consciousness had parted ways,Taking a well-earned vacation.

~ Morris R. Gates

Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain.

~ Lucy Foley

Sometimes Geraldine feels like she can drive forever. Maybe that’s partially why she took a job at Milo General Motors. Driving is the best means of escape that the human race has, at least, that’s her opinion. She’s never had the guts to try drugs before, both because her sister was a junkie in the last few months she knew her, and because she’s heard the overdose horror stories, seen 'Requiem for a Dream', smelled the vapours of a meth lab that Julia’s boyfriend built, heard the crunching glass of crack vials and heroine needles when they happen to break. Even this alone is too surreal, not to mention that if she were high or tripping on acid or whatever the drug of choice may be, this would give the ghosts more power to morph into something even more nightmarish than they already are.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth turned the dark skin of the fiery balloon midnight blue. They flew straight up. Above them, the sweet, clear music of the lonely pipe called to them. Then the smooth sky puckered into cloth-of-blue and drew aside. They passed straight through...

~ Pauline Fisk

Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.

~ Fennel Hudson

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

~ Dan Pearce

Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the rat race that’s tricky.

~ Fennel Hudson

But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

I instantly dragged my fingers across a shelf of book spines, in love with each one already. Books were a safe place, a world apart from my own. No matter what had happened that day, that year, there was always a story in which someone overcame their darkest hour. I wasn't alone.

~ Kiera Cass

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

~ Todd Phillips