“Then from those profound slumbers we awake in a dawn, not knowing who we are, being nobody, newly born, ready for anything, the brain emptied of that past which was life until then. And perhaps it is more wonderful still when our landing at the waking-point is abrupt and the thoughts of our sleep, h…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“The bonds between ourselves and another person exists only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature w…”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Time weighs down on you like an old ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the world, you won’t be able to escape it. Still you have to go there - to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Of course if he wanted to escape, he could do so. The prison was, after all, his own heart.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I went away in my head…That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Of course if he wanted to escape, he could do so. The prison was, after all, his own heart.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.”— Zadie Smith, amazon.com
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”— Maya Angelou, twitter.com
“I’ve been working so hard that I’m exhausted… I feel I won’t be able to do without a few weeks’ rest, so I’m going off to see the sea.”— Claude Monet, amazon.com
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.com
“What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can’t get back in time to wake up?”— Ruth Ozeki, amazon.com
“We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.”— Lynda Barry, amazon.com
“Run, run my sweetling. From anything that makes you feel hopeless. Despair is a dungeon disguised as a beautiful garden where you’ll die and rot forever.”— Juansen Dizon, lonelyblueboy.wordpress.com
“Comfort was the answer to all life's problems. It didn't solve them, but it made them more distant for a bit as they quietly worsened.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com