208 Quotes About Escapism

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

I loved the idea that looking at a painting or listening to a concerto could make you somehow "transcend" the day-in, day-out bullshit that grinds you down; how in one instant of pure attention you could draw something inside that made you forever larger.

من المستحسن دائما ان يتأمل الإنسان ما يراود نفسه من أحلام، على ذلك فالتصوف هروب، والإيمان السلبي بالعلم هروب، واذن فلابد من عمل، ولابد للعمل من إيمان، والمسألة هي كيف نخلق لأنفسنا إيمانا جديرا بالحياة

If i could jump now on any train on the planet, it would be one that a jazzman had written about.

Reading is important. It’s not primarily escapism (though it can be, and there’s nothing wrong with some of that in good measure) and it’s not primarily a way of passing the time. Reading is important to the good life because it stokes the furnaces of our intellect, allows us to expand our understanding of the universe, both inner and outer, for practical gain and simple pleasure. It can induce awe, inspire respect, excite, piss off, and intrigue. These are things that make life worth living.

Blaise has always lived in a dream world.""We all live in dream worlds," said Monty.

If you say the gods have deemed it is your time to fall, it will be on top of our broken bodies, and we will walk with you to the underworld.

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.

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.