"To shut your eyes is to travel."

Escape, Travel, Imagination, Truth

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"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

"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

"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 be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."

Alcaeus, Greek Poet

Escape, Drinking, Folly, Grief, Melancholy

"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"

Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

Escape, Happiness, Emotion, Life

"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Escape, Loneliness, Hope, Future

"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."

Stephen King, American Author

Escape, Humor, Today, Happiness, Regret

"I think escapism is really important."

Jordana Brewster, American Actress

Escape, Escapism

"Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist

Escape, Emotion, Awareness, Time

"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."

Michael Grant, American Author

Escape, Fantasy, Reality, Hope

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"Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast-Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white-I should not fear the foe then-I should not fear the fight!"

Spiritual

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Death

"The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy."

Nature

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all."

Spiritual

"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

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

Love

"Hope is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm -I've heard it in the chillest land -And on the strangest Sea -Yet - never - in Extremity,It asked a crumb - of me."

Hope

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"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."

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

"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 be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."

"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"

"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."

"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."

"I think escapism is really important."

"Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn't want to pass that thunderhead on her way out."

"But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary."

Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson

"Bless God, he went as soldiers,His musket on his breast-Grant God, he charge the bravestOf all the martial blest!Please God, might I behold himIn epauletted white-I should not fear the foe then-I should not fear the fight!"

"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

"The pedigree of honey Does not concern the bee A clover anytime to him Is aristocracy."

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without words And never stops - at all."

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

"Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought."

"To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

"Where thou art, that is home."