208 Quotes About Escapism

You were trying to find a way to get rid of yourself,but you were still left with your mouth.

An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

It's more like... It keeps the world out so I can be in my own thoughts.

We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.

Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we are. It's not running away; it's running toward the thing we wish we could be, the thing we strive to be, the thing we never can be, but the thing which we always must try to become if we want to be something more than we are.

All those other lives. You never did get to lead them.

If you have burning desire to be free (as I have) you must first find this freedom within you. And to be free in this manner, you have to be comfortable with who and what you are.

Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.