All Quotes By Tag: Escape

“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”

Card image cap - Oliver Sacks
Tag: consciousness, day-to-day, escape, explanation, freedom, future, hope, human-beings, inhibitions, life, living, meaning, patterns, transcendence, transport, understanding,

“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I’m not even brave enough for that”

Card image cap - Paula Hawkins ,
Tag: brokenness, escape, feelings, hopeless, hurt, life, self-doubt, shame,

“He was fucking sad. That’s it. That’s the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there’s no fixing him. It’s always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.”

Card image cap - Jasmine Warga,
Tag: boring, depression, escape, life, mental-illness, suicide,

“I choose to write because it’s perfect for me. It’s an escape, a place I can go to hide. It’s a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It’s a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It’s a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It’s control, when I feel so out of control. It’s healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it’s fun, when life is just flat-out boring.”

Card image cap - Alysha Speer
Tag: book, boring, control, escape, friend, fun, healing, life, story, write, writing,

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”

Card image cap - Graham Greene,
Tag: escape, life, therapy, writing,

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”

Card image cap - Michael Bassey Johnson,
Tag: affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development, disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go, letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control, self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality, vanish,

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”

Card image cap - W. Somerset Maugham,
Tag: bibliotherapy, books, escape, good-habits, life, pleasure, reading, refuge,