Escape From Reality Quotes

“He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Every kid needs one place they can escape to when life gets to be too much.”
― Lisa Fipps, Starfish

“He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great séance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Reading was her escape from the world, and within the pages she could become anyone she wanted to be. Sometimes she was a beautiful princess, and sometimes she was a brave heroine.”
― Carla Reighard, The Web of Loki

“Fiction became a friend as well as a safe harbor; a cocoon to protect her from the outside world and its dangers. She could read about Robin Redbreast but she must avoid at all costs the robins that tittered in the back garden.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“They say that to escape reality is when you sleep, but when you sleep your sub conscious is in control of your dreams. For me to escape reality is when I read and write. When I read the world around me doesn't exist. The world in the story does and when I write I'm in control. Think of it as the author is the god of the world that they created. They set the characters fate.”
― Emily aka xXxWhitelipsxXx

“It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black.”
― Stephen King, It

“There’s something magic about airports it’s like standing in a room with a thousand doors.”
― Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic

“My life was falling somewhere between mental anguish and boredom. I tended to resist any kind of joy, even when I longed to live a more exciting life. I couldn’t make even small or simple changes, and I wasn’t able to shift my thinking.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“Schizofrenia pana la ultima ei limita, refuzul total al oricarei realitati decat cea a visului, al oricarui adevar decat al viziunii.”
― Gellu Naum

“Bunnu was no amateur when it came to escape. And even in his drowsiest moments, he understood implicitly that to forget his circumstances, even for a short while, meant first to forget himself. Who he was and why he was—to strip it all bare and start from scratch, as it were. In his nearly 250 years of life and, now, as an old emaciated man completely estranged from his family and closest friends—albeit more by circumstance than by choice—he understood the importance of this process and revered it, for there were far greater things to be done and achieved in the dark, uncertain areas of existence than in those circumscribed—and thereby strained—by comprehensibility.”
― Ashim Shanker, Only the Deplorable

“I just wanted to stay away from everyone as much as possible. Like a hedgehog rolling into a ball when it’s threatened. But sometimes I wished everything was different.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“she just went to the library to read, to escape into other people's imaginations. Often, she reread books she'd loved as a child, their familiarity a balm--- Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Chronicles of Narnia, and her favorite, The Secret Garden. Sometimes, she would close her eyes and find herself not in bed with Simon, but amongst the tangled plants at Misselthwaite Manor, watching roses nod in the breeze.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“Fantasy and daydreams are like internet. They enrich your life but if you're using them as an escape from painful 'reality', they can suck you into a dark spiral path.”
― Shunya

“All people are addicts, and all addicts desire the same thing: an escape from reality.”
― Alice Feeney, Rock Paper Scissors

“Whenever walls are removed, the desire to escape is heightened”
― P.J. Bayliss

“As his doubts increased, Tengo began deliberately to put some distance between himself and the world of mathematics, and instead the forest of story began to exert a stronger pull on his heart. Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape. As soon as he closed their pages he had to come back to the real world. But at some point Tengo noticed that returning to reality from the world of a “novel was not as devastating a blow as returning from the world of mathematics. Why should that have been? After much deep thought, he reached a conclusion. No matter how clear the relationships of things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Force Field. The place where you are safe. You are loved. You are free!”
― K. U. Grudowski, Force Field

“He was always reflexively imagined ways to cause himself extreme injury when he was distressed. It seemed to sooth him briefly, the act of imagining a much worse and more totalising pain then the one he really felt, maybe just the cognitive energy it required, the momentary break in his train of thought, but afterwords he would only feel worse.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Sometimes I’d lose myself in daydreams. I’d build up a dream little by little, assemble the pieces of every scene; I’d draw it, then correct it. I could lose myself for hours to live an alternative reality where everything was simple and easy to reach.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad, Lemon Twist

“She knew how dangerous escape could be. Survival took grit and courage and effort. It was too easy to give in.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

“Books were my mother's world, but she was mine. We lived in the apartment above the shop, and every day with my mom was an adventure. We didn't travel far on vacations because of the shop."
Natalie used to beg to travel the world the way her friends did on school holidays---Disneyland, Hawaii, London, Japan. Instead, her mom would take her on flights of the imagination to Prince Edward Island, to Sutter's Mill, to Narnia and Sunnybrook Farm, to outer space and Hogwarts.
She tried her best to bring her mother back to life with a few key anecdotes and memories smeared by tears. And then she looked down at the page she'd read many times growing up---from The Minpins by Roald Dahl. "The first time my mother read this book to me was after a visit to the Claymore Arboretum. I was five years old, and I believed the dragonflies were fairies, and that tiny sprites rode around on the backs of songbirds. She let me go on thinking that for as long as I pleased. And as far as I'm concerned, that's the best parenting advice ever."
She breathed in, imagining the comfortable scent of her mother's bathrobe as they snuggled together for their nightly story. She breathed out, hoping her words would somehow touch her mother one more time.
"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“And really, what would I have done all the years without a monster sound system in my car? Where else, beyond the walls of a club, can you experience bass loud enough to wipe your memory clean without complaint from the neighbors? Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go. A drive to the convenience store is five minutes of that storm blowing in from paradise. I'll take the sneers of oldsters at intersections expecting gunfire. The relief is too rare to give up for civility's sake.”
― Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

“Do you think you have left the world, do you think one escapes that easily? You carry the world with you, wherever you go, like a turtle.”
― Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place

“É inventando que consigo ser honesto.”
― Jeferson Tenório, O Avesso da Pele

“Every person on this earth struggles to one degree or
another, and the fate of each one of those people has been written by forces beyond your imagination. And yet, and this is the odd part to me, we are and have always been fully responsible for our entire lives. What a marvel, what a great conundrum.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“Transmutation happens through a process of inner action. Transmutation is the key principle that unlocks a door, and as you will discover in time, it is the unlocking of this door that will break the bonds of the trap that you are currently in. The way of inner alchemy is basically a way to escape that trap.”
― John Kreiter, The Art of Transmutation

“- Чому ти не дивишся на мене? Ти вдаєш, ніби я не існую?
- Ні, Чарлі, - прошепотіла вона. - Я вдаю, ніби я не існую.”
― Деніел Кіз, Flowers for Algernon

“Sì, il mondo è grande, il mondo è immenso anche di giorno, quando la vallata di Višegrad vibra sotto la calura e quasi si sente il rumore del grano che matura, quando la kasaba, sparpagliata intorno al verde fiume, chiusa dalla linea regolare del ponte e dai neri monti, sembra esplodere nel suo biancore. Ma è di notte, solo di notte, che il cielo si anima e si infiamma rivelando l'immensità e la grande energia di quel mondo in cui l'essere umano si smarrisce e non sa più dove andare né cosa desiderare o fare. Solo allora si vive realmente, con serenità e a lungo; solo allora non ci sono più parole che impegnano per tutta la vita, promesse fatidiche o situazioni disperate la cui conclusione si avvicina inesorabile e lascia solo la morte o la vergogna come via d'uscita. Sì, non è come durante la vita diurna, quando non si può tornare sulla parola data, né sfuggire a quel che si è promesso. Di notte tutto è libero, infinito, anonimo e muto.”
― Ivo Andrić, Il ponte sulla Drina. Racconti

“Charles has a genius for images, that's what it is--- symbols that glow in the mind, rich and radiant with meaning. And the whole thing rolls along so smoothly and pleasurably--- Marie finds herself closing her eyes for a few seconds, and lets his voice take her to a far-off kingdom, and feels, for just that moment, as if she doesn't have to be responsible for everything that happens. As if she can trust in his voice.”
― Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies