208 Quotes About Escapism

Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide.

The best-trained part of us, though, is the mouth, it �is always obediently and devoutly shut. And it's only too true: an open mouth is a yawning fact, the fact that its owner is dwelling with his few thoughts in some other place than the domain and pleasure-garden of attentiveness.

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

She was the kind of star who sold happy dreams. She didn't want to sell darkness. Pain was best left in the real world where it belonged, where it burrowed so deep you needed a multimillion-dollar industry to escape from it.

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

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.

When we're deluded, there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

Try escaping to petty affairs for a while, what really matters will eventually get you to pay attention to it.

It’s not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you’re schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind.