208 Quotes About Escapism

Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism.

In my dreams, crowds were chanting, challenging me, shouting, "Follow us and fit in!" I wanted to tell him that life itself has turned into a prowling lion. I wanted to tell him that I needed to escape the blaze of bullshit.

It almost never takes a pleasant state of mind to desire to be high or drunk.

Some of our endeavours to eliminate or forget our problems invite more problems.

I know you yearn for him, and for one last time you shall have him. But please, let go of him after this.

Well, we are still the created, no matter how dark we’ve become. We are no more trespassers than the jaguar that had been trailing us. We all belong, because we all live, as simple as that.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

Reality worked its way into my dreams where it wasn’t welcome.

Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves.