"To shut your eyes is to travel."

Escape, Travel, Imagination, Truth

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"If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Escape, Longing, Freedom, Conflict

"For the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

Escape, Love, Safety, Desire, Peace

"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

"Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Escape, Life, Pain, Religion

"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."

Dan Pearce, American Author

Escape, Stress, Self-Care, Freedom

"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

"That's where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that -just dreams, just play. She'd been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father, because God couldn't, because she would never escape her need to love him."

Geoffrey Wood, American Author

Escape, Family, Pain, Dream

"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

Escape, Art, Freedom, Expression

"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Escape, Reading, Imagination, Reality

"Please leave me alone, let me go on to the stars."

Arthur C. Clarke, English Writer

Escape, Solitude, Stars, Freedom

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"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

Poetry

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

Chance

"A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within."

Hope

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."

Love

"Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest."

Love

"In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down,Whose bonnets touch the firmament,Whose sandals touch the town, -Meek at whose everlasting feetA myriad daisies play.Which, sir, are you, and which am I.Upon an August day?"

Nature

"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away."

Nostalgia

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"If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless."

"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."

"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."

"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."

"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."

"Please leave me alone, let me go on to the stars."

Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry."

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

"A great hope fellYou heard no noiseThe ruin was within."

"Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath."

"Anger as soon as fed is dead 'tis starving makes it fat."

"Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies."

"The past is not a package one can lay away."

"Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a crest,Her heart is fit for home-I- a Sparrow- build thereSweet of twigs and twineMy perennial nest."

"In lands I never saw, they say, Immortal Alps look down,Whose bonnets touch the firmament,Whose sandals touch the town, -Meek at whose everlasting feetA myriad daisies play.Which, sir, are you, and which am I.Upon an August day?"

"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away."