174 quotes found
“My mind became a sanctuary for secret thoughts of escaping from this household.”
“To escape from the world means that one's mind is not concerned with the opinions of the world.”
“Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too.”
“Youve gone far away to a place with no horses and very little grass, and youre studying how to write a story with a happy ending. If you can write that ending for yourself, maybe you can come back.”
“You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.Unto the world in grossly loving zest,With c...”
“He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.”
“I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.”
“... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one might get like that. One might run away from reality into a half world of one's own and then, of cou...”
“If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the the...”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
“He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality ...”
“After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.”
“The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.”
“Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult.Words are powerful. Be...”
“I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we found salvation through words. I understand the Bible story of Babel so much better now. I think th...”
“I wanted to walk faster, to run, far as possible from her, from my entire life, from the first day I ever saw her always just a few steps ahead.”
“Were lost in each other, in the heart of Toronto, slow dancing to nothing but the beat of my heart and the sound of her breath on my neck. I know the subway trains are trembling beneath my feet and...”
“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from the intolerable, a doorway into impossibly hospitable worlds where things had ...”
“Reading is an escape people use in order to get away from reality. It is a chance to be free and explore who you are.”
“The spirit of the way is surely there, in the wish to wander through the world in order to escape it and to find others where there is nobody.”
