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

Escape, Poetry, Despair, Contradiction

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

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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 came to this city to escape."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Escape, City, Isolation, Choice

"I think escapism is really important."

Jordana Brewster, American Actress

Escape, Escapism

"To shut your eyes is to travel."

Emily Dickinson, American Poet

Escape, Travel, Imagination, Truth

Explore more quotes by John Fowles

"For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most."

Humanity

"It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world."

Despair

"We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away."

Connection

"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."

Life

"When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the cage of glass between me and the rest of the world - she just laughed. 'You like it,' she said. 'You say you're isolated, boyo, but you really think you're different."

Isolation

"Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is."

Life

"I needed a new mystery."

Mystery

"Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man."

Life

"Girls possess sexual tact in inverse proportion to their standard of education."

Society

"He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind."

Expression