Escapism Quotes

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

Albert Einstein

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

Alfred A. Montapert

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

Ellis Peters

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.

Eric Hoffer

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

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I look at you, you bite your tongue. You don’t know why or where I’m coming from. But in my head I’m close to you, we’re in the rain still searching for the sun. You think that I want to run and hide, that I keep it all locked up inside, but I just want you to find me. I’m not lost, just undiscovered. You see the look that’s on my face. You might think I’m out of place. I’m not running, I’m not hiding. But if you dig a little deeper, you will FIND ME.

James Morrison

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Horace

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.

Unknown

Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like...Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps / if we trust it to do so. Naturally, not all hunches are useful. But then you only need a single good idea to solve a problem.

Marsha Sinetar

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

Roger Moore
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