"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

Escape, Alcohol, Life, Reality

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

Exlpore more Escape quotes

"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

Escape, Secrecy, Fear, Conflict

"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Escape, Alcohol, Life, Reality

"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."

Anais Nin, American Author

Escape, Reality, Life, Ecstasy

"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Escape, Liquor, Pain, Life

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Escape, Books, Reading, Imagination

"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Escape, Truth, Life, Power, Happiness

"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Escape, Reality, Creation, Mind, Imagination

"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Escape, Nothing, Thought, Wind

"After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great,' he said. 'To escape the cognitive mode of experience, to transcend the accident to one's moment of being. There are other advantages, more difficult to speak of, things which ancient sources only hint at and which I myself only understood after the fact."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Escape, Self, Experience, Desire

"If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!"

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Escape, Dream, Reality, Desire

Explore more quotes by Charles Bukowski

11

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Escape quotes

"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."

"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

"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."

"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."

"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."

"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind."

"If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!"

Explore more quotes by Charles Bukowski

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

"A life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years."

"Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die."

"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"

"I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey."

"Great books are the ones we need."

"She wasn't veryinterestingbut few peopleare."

"The cat is the beautiful devil."

"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."

"Humanity, you never had it to begin with."