"To shut your eyes is to travel."

Escape, Travel, Imagination, Truth

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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."

George Orwell, British Author

Escape, Word, Truth, Reality

"I've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

Escape, Desire, Humor, Loneliness

"I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place."

Julie Kagawa, American Author

Escape, Fantasy, Hope, Imagination

"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

"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."

H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

Escape, Books, Imagination, Longing

"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."

John Fowles, English Novelist

Escape, Poetry, Despair, Contradiction

"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

"The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Escape, World, Soul, Dream

"Escapers were the cream of the crop."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Escape, Excellence, Freedom, Skill

"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

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"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

Art

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

Belief

"I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too-And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness..."

Nature

"I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep."I woke and chid my honest fingers,-The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own."

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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."

"I've had enough of this. if you'll excuse me, i'm going to find a tavern where i can pay an underdressed woman to sit it my lap and look very pleased with me while i drink heavily."

"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."

"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."

"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."

"The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide."

"Escapers were the cream of the crop."

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

Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson

"A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think."

"Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."

"Art is a house that tries to be haunted."

"Saying nothing... sometimes says the most."

"He disposes Doom who hath suffered him."

"Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away."

"We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble."

"I HIDE myself within my flowerThat wearing on your breast,You, unsuspecting, wear me too-And angels know the rest.I hide myself within my flower,That, fading from your vase,You, unsuspecting, feel for meAlmost a loneliness..."

"I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep."I woke and chid my honest fingers,-The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own."