208 Quotes About Escapism

I wanted to run away and keep running until I was out of this sad, ugly fairy tale. There's only one way to run away from your own story, and that's to sneak into someone else's. I unwedged the leather-bound book from beneath my mattress and breathed in the ink-and-adventure smell of it. I walked through it into another world.

Drunkards have a problem, not with sobriety, but with reality.

I read to occupy a mind other than my own

Sleep is often a form of escapism.

Are all these books doors?''A book is always a door.

Those who constantly seek escapism from reality are in danger of building a reality that's impossible to escape from

Those who avoid reality mustn't dare counsel others on what reality is nor how it shall be dealt with.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

One of the most boring things about being in a relationship is that your partner usually makes their boredom your problem.