Escaping From Reality Quotes

“Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect of dissociation is frequently found in abuse survivors. It is not uncommon for abused children to engage in magical thinking to retain an illusion of control over the situation (e.g., believing that they "cause" the perpetrator to act out).”
― Marlene Steinberg

“Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.”
― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

“Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“We´re afraid that if we fully surrender to our darkness, we´ll never come back from it. We´re afraid our darkness will go on and on and on, that there is no end to it and that we will get lost in it. We´re afraid that if we show these ugly, unpalatable parts of ourselves, it will be too much for others; that nobody will love and accept us, and we´ll be left alone with only the worst parts of ourselves for company.”
― Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up

“Nice concept.
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.”
― Jonathan Kellerman, Self-Defense

“The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Suddenly, I wish I had another thirty minutes of running in me. I wish I could keep running forever. Away from here.
I can't. And I can't leave my mother.
I turn the music down and head for home.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Call It What You Want

“A girl who travels knows that deep down she is escaping reality. So she’ll want someone to give her hope and land back to the idea that reality isn’t as bad as it seems in the end. And if she tells you she loves you - it is exactly because you give her that hope”
― lauren klarfeld

“I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.”
― E. Leo Foster

“Man uses action to keep away the wasps of thought and understanding. The man of relentless labour and business is the perfect escapist; escaping the world by diving too deep into the world.”
― Giannis Delimitsos

“She had forced herself to learn to read – picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room – there'd been no lock – and lose herself in books.”
― Dianna Hardy, Broken Lights

“A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Ikviens bēg, citādi nevar, manu Karali. Arī es bēgu, tikai laikam uz citu pusi.”
― Arnis Buka, Purpura karaļa galmā. Latviešu autoru fantāzijas un fantastikas stāsti

“We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.”
― April Mae Monterrosa

“The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Daydreaming is a way of escaping
from reality. But you can’t avoid the
reality forever! Sooner or later you
have to wake up & face it!”
― Lily Amis

“In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“Voyager

The mind travelled light
to unknown lands...”
― Irene Doura-Kavadia, The Miracles Within