Escapism Quotes

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Ellis Peters

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.
Horace Horace

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
Artaud, Antonin

Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Cocteau, Jean

All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality – the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

A person is neither whole nor healthy without the memories of photo albums. They are the storybook of our lives. They provide a nostalgic escape from the tormented days of the present.
Patrick Garry

There is, Oh Monks, a not-born, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. Monks, if that unborn, not-become, not-made, not-compounded were not, there would be no escape from this here that is born, become, made and compounded.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change the hearts of men.

There is an unborn, a not-become, a not-made, a not-compounded. There cannot be any escape from what is born, become compounded. But since there is this unborn, not become, not-made, not-compounded, therefore is there made known an escape from what i.







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