208 Quotes About Escapism

I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.

Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.

- Quando sarai stanco di star lì cambierai idea! - gli gridò.- Non cambierò mai idea, - fece mio fratello, dal ramo.- Ti farò vedere io, appena scendi! -- E io non scenderò più! - E mantenne la parola.

People like to believe that they have several options open to them, but this is only a justification for attempting to avoid their battles. A warrior understands the folly of seeking escapisms, for he knows the world is pervaded by power, which comes at him like the waves of the sea. He either mounts the crest of those waves and surfs them, or he goes down under.

a great way to hide the truth is to write a lot of non-fiction

If today i was a graffiti, i would be one on a train that goes to the South of France.

He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.

There is glory in this escape, there is comfort; being not found.

Most nights she went with the moon, and when it was round she stayed in my biggest bedroom and wouldn’t answer the thing that asked her to let it out(let you out from where?let me out from the small, the hot, the take me out of the fire i am ready i am hard like the stones you ate, bitter like those husks)the moonlight striped her, marked out places where the whispering thing would slip through and she would unfold.