Books As Escape And Self-Discovery

Table of Contents

• Books as a Means of Escape
• Books for Self-Discovery
• Books as a Source of Comfort and Solace
• Books as a Gateway to Other Worlds
• Books as Companions and Guides
• Books as a Journey or Adventure
• Books as a Source of Knowledge and Illumination
• Other

Books as a Means of Escape

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

Lost in a book is a great place to be found.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.

Books are my escape from my own mind

I can escape to the blissful realms between the pages of books.

Books are my refuge. I can crawl into the space between the pages and curl my back to loneliness.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Books were a necessary escape I always gladly jumped into headfirst.

When I read books it’s to escape. It’s so I don’t have to talk to people.

Books for Self-Discovery

The 'one book' which hasn't been written yet, even thenpersistent a book is being written by me, and might never end!While, I survive inside my brain with someone.

Our books are the deepest glimpses into our souls, the most raw and real anybody will ever find us.

Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you.

I want to go inside the book of your life. Find what's hidden in the pages. Read between the lines. Then hold the book close to my heart.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.

Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours.

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.

People place so much value on thought, but feeling is as essential. I want to read books that make me laugh and cry and fear and hope and punch the air in triumph. I want a book to hug me or grab me by the scruff of my neck. I don’t even mind if it punches me in the gut. Because we are here to feel.

Books as a Source of Comfort and Solace

There are times in one's life when a good book—the right book—feels like a voice speaking in the darkness,reaching out from the past;providing solace when all else seems lost.

The uninitiated might say that I am lost in my books, but I know I am more found than lost.

The beauty of a book is that the opportunity to grow, heal and be refreshed is but a page away.

Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.

If you have never ever read a book then try reading I Lost My Soul', you will fall in love with books...

A good book slowly grabs you by the soul without your knowledge. By the time you’re in tears and laughing at the top of your lungs at the same time it’s too late. You’re hooked.

There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

There’ll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you’ll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.

I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.

Books as a Gateway to Other Worlds

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

You can put your foot on the path to exactly what you want this second. When you open that book or go online today, you are carving out a direct link to your perfect world.

I live in paradise within the pages of a book.

How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you'd pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life.

A book holds another universe. If you open it, you join it and your adventures begin.

I am a Book.Open the cover and let my Universe spill over you.

I love the way that each book—any book—is its own journey. You open it, and off you go….

I realized that a book can reach out and embrace you like an arm and make you walk away from you thought you understood.

There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what can happen is beyond what we do - or would want to see in real life.

When I open a book, I want to dive into a world that is magical, where anything can happen.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

Books as Companions and Guides

When you find that one book, that one that makes you tingle. It's almost like you found a little piece of magic.

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

I know I've done my life the hard way, and if you're reading this book, you probably have too. You're not alone. Welcome to the human condition. But now, it's time for an easier way. Or you wouldn't have this book in your hands. Divine Timing and all. Go for good, and all that's not the truth of you will fall away.

the moment when you look from your book and realize that there is a world behind the book

A book acts as the getaway car when you need to escape.Even when you're the one writing it.

You cannot read all the books,but you can read 'I LOST MY SOUL

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

You can’t hide in your books forever. There are all kinds of people, and good things, and life, just waiting for you.

That’s what is so precious in reading this way – you can plumb the depths of another’s experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Books as a Journey or Adventure

A book is an ocean,Its upon you,Whether you find pearls,Or only take a drop….!!!!

oh god i live in sea of shallow people ..i hope someday find who really deeper than every book i read it..

Getting lost inside a book could be a good thing.

As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.

When you sit down with a book, you are separating yourself out of your world for a few hours and getting lost in the story.

As if there’s a world that exists that you’re semi-privy to yet can’t quite penetrate – that’s how it feels when you’re starting a book.

Books are lighthouses erected in quacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Books as a Source of Knowledge and Illumination

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

I know this sounds very poetic but I have a maxim: to only read books that makes your soul dance

If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!

And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books.""Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.

Open your eyes at last and see...now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That’s what I take with my morning tea.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

How I long to feel the weight of a book in my hand. How I long to turn a page, and pass through the print as you’d pass through a door, into that world of wise and lofty spirits, of strange animals, of noble deeds and faraway cities. If only I could crawl into a book and stay there for the rest of my life.

Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It’s a must have.

Other

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull; find out where it takes you.

This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.

We don’t want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don’t want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book.

I feel like every other book has been a small piece of me. This is every piece of me.

And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

That’s exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what happens next,” and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.

I want to go inside the book of your life. Find what’s hidden in the pages. Read between the lines. Then hold the book close to my heart.

If you have never ever read a book then try reading I Lost My Soul’, you will fall in love with books...

There’s a book for everyone, even if they don’t think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

More Collections

Friendship Quotes Hub

Sports Team Confidence & Success Quotes

Persistence and Progress

Best Limited Social Circles Quotes

Best Life Quotes

Best Intense Rivalry Games Quotes