Quotes About Escapism

He used sweet wine in place of life because he didn't have any more life to use.

Your protectors' goals for your life revolve around keeping you away from all that pain, shame, loneliness, and fear, and they use a wide array of tools to meet those goals—achievements, substances, food, entertainment, shopping, sex, obsession with your appearance, caretaking, meditation, money, and so on.

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Estás intentando emborracharte? - Por supuesto que sí. Si tengo que hablar conmigo mismo, no veo qué necesidad hay de hacerlo sobrio.

He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

That's why I love entertainment, in all forms: it's connection disguised as escapism.

But it was more than that. Paris represented life, sensuality, freedom, and fun. And that somehow made it impossible.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

Personality shots," her roommates used to call the first drinks of the night. Liquid courage. Whatever you called it, the point was to turn off the voice in your head that reminded you of everything wrong in your life.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.

I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again - and when she would sleep. She started going to the movies.

the only way to tolerate the thought of her mother sleeping with that man was to get drunk-very drunk.

Movies are romantic fantasies.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.