208 Quotes About Escapism

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.

It was an effort formulating this summary, explaining myself. I preferred the distant past, centuries that were over and done with, ghosts that posed no direct threat. History could be milked for this cause or that. We observed it always with hindsight, projecting onto it our modern convictions and anxieties.

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

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.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!""You will hate the next place, too," I said. "What you are you will carry with you.

a behavior repeated because it seems to produce reinforcement, even though it is actually unnecessary

Enforced seclusion from society and personal introspection are not the product of a brilliant intellectual insight or a calculated election. Escape was necessary, reality proved too harsh.