208 Quotes About Escapism

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

One cannot help but wonder what used to get the huge portions of our attention that are now gotten by social media every single day.

I talk too much, but there's a lot unsaid. I've slept in a lot of beds.

Our protection against loneliness is exactly what keeps the loneliness intact.

With even the slightest upset, detachment soon followed. I didn’t lose sleep over men, and I was too restless to be tied down. The grass didn’t even have time to grow around my feet before I was planning my next escape – whether it was to another state or out of someone’s life.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

You can be a bad experiencer and still be an overly mature person.

Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish to embrace all experience and encounters in life or seek escape from various aspect of human nature. How we resolve to address existential anguish becomes a large part of our personal story.

I’ve indulged all my escapist dreams. I’m here, away from everyone, living it up. Being a selfish and antisocial git.