I see you two, three times a week. Ain't got no money in my jeans. So help me out, I need to breathe. Help me out, I need to breathe. Take a ride inside your whip, I pass the aux, you pass the spliff. We can escape into the bliss.
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Quotes tagged ‘Escapism’
When one is troubled by the reality of this world, it can be comforting to consider other possibilities, even if those possibilities disturb us, so strong is the desire to escape the tyranny of consciousness and the narrow boundaries of our perceptions, to unlock the prisons of thought in which we t…
— Frank Spotnitz, Nobusuke Tagomi, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, imdb.com
Control can sometimes be an illusion. But sometimes you need illusions to gain control. Fantasy is an easy way to give meaning to world. To cloak our harsh reality with escapist comfort. After all, isn't that why we surround ourselves with so many screens? So we can avoid seeing? So we can avoid eac…
Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Daydreaming about alternative lives to escape my own has become a coping mechanism which I have internalised so much that it happens unconsciously throughout the day. I’ll be always daydreaming in the back of my head no matter what I do.
I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it’s an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
If you’re angry, you don’t have to write a poem dealing with the cause of your anger. But it needs to be an angry poem. So go ahead… write one. I know you’re at least a little bit angry with me. And when you’re done with your poem, decipher it as if you’d just found it printed in a textbook and know…
When life wears us down, great fiction gives us back our human shape.
That’s what I do. Watch movies and read. Sometimes I even pretend to write, but I’m not fooling anyone. Oh, and I go to the mailbox.
To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the centre of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay.
She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else.
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.
There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen.
Sometimes she hides in moments I wish I had.
— Noah A. Nemley on Muses (via LEGENDMEDIA), quotemadness.com
Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.
Because paper has more patience than people.