"To shut your eyes is to travel."

Escape, Travel, Imagination, Truth

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"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

"I just want to get away from me."

Kris Kidd, American Writer

Escape, Identity, Exhaustion, Reflection

"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

"I sell escapism."

Jimmy Buffett, American Musician

Escape, Escapism

"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

"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

"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

Jack Henry Abbott, American Author

Escape, Eyes

"I'd rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty."

Benjamin Alire Saenz, American Poet

Escape, Honesty, Irony, Comfort

"I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuous magic partsopen for theasking."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Escape, Life, Poison, Hope, Magic

"If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Escape, Freedom, Desire, Change

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

Belief

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

Writing

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

Perception

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"

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"I just want to get away from me."

"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."

"I sell escapism."

"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."

"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."

"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

"I'd rather have a cup of coffee and a cigarette than live in all that honesty."

"I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuous magic partsopen for theasking."

"If this was my forever, I didn't want to spend another second of it here."

Explore more quotes by Emily Dickinson

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

"I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine."

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

"But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising."

"Fame is a bee.It has a song -It has a sting -Ah, too, it has a wing."

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

"I like a look of agony, because I know it's true."

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

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few."

"How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!"