Escaping From Reality Quotes
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“Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This aspect of dissociation is frequently found in abuse survivors. It is not uncommon for abused children to engage in magical thinking to retain an illusion of control over the situation (e.g., believing that they "cause" the perpetrator to act out).”
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“Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.”
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
― Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
“Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls

“We´re afraid that if we fully surrender to our darkness, we´ll never come back from it. We´re afraid our darkness will go on and on and on, that there is no end to it and that we will get lost in it. We´re afraid that if we show these ugly, unpalatable parts of ourselves, it will be too much for others; that nobody will love and accept us, and we´ll be left alone with only the worst parts of ourselves for company.”
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
― The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up

“Nice concept.
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.”
― Self-Defense
-What is?
-Retreating. Getting away from the grind.
-Oh, you never do. You just change gears.”
― Self-Defense
“The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls

“Suddenly, I wish I had another thirty minutes of running in me. I wish I could keep running forever. Away from here.
I can't. And I can't leave my mother.
I turn the music down and head for home.”
― Call It What You Want
I can't. And I can't leave my mother.
I turn the music down and head for home.”
― Call It What You Want
“A girl who travels knows that deep down she is escaping reality. So she’ll want someone to give her hope and land back to the idea that reality isn’t as bad as it seems in the end. And if she tells you she loves you - it is exactly because you give her that hope”
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“A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.”
― Dead Toad Scrolls
― Dead Toad Scrolls

“I went to the club to escape my life and pretend I'm somebody else. Now I don't know who I am anymore.”
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“Man uses action to keep away the wasps of thought and understanding. The man of relentless labour and business is the perfect escapist; escaping the world by diving too deep into the world.”
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“She had forced herself to learn to read � picked up bits and pieces, here and there, from the very few teachers who had been patient with her; from looking at words while out and about; from television, and from friends. And to avoid the shouting and drug-induced moaning, and the row of male visitors her mum would entertain, she would barricade herself in her room � there'd been no lock � and lose herself in books.”
― Broken Lights
― Broken Lights
“Ikviens bēg, citādi nevar, manu Karali. Arī es bēgu, tikai laikam uz citu pusi.”
― Purpura karaļa galmā. Latviešu autoru fantāzijas un fantastikas stāsti
― Purpura karaļa galmā. Latviešu autoru fantāzijas un fantastikas stāsti
“We live and breathe words...but writing them down makes you escape into new worlds. Only those who write would understand.”
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“The things you escape have the ability to catch you, one or other day! Stop running away! Meet them and defeat them!”
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“Daydreaming is a way of escaping
from reality. But you can’t avoid the
reality forever! Sooner or later you
have to wake up & face it!”
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from reality. But you can’t avoid the
reality forever! Sooner or later you
have to wake up & face it!”
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“In Fillory you felt the appropriate emotions when things happened. Happiness was a real, actual, achievable possibility. It came when you called. Or no, it never left you in the first place.”
― The Magicians
― The Magicians
“Having lived through many troubles in the past, does he have any advice? � He tells me, 'Live your life without considering that the present. Imagine you're walking on the road between two mountains. Present is the ground below. Walk straight ahead and focus on the crossing to the other mountain. Never look down.'
From now on, I will take his advice and try walking straight ahead till I reach the other mountain. When I get there, the present will be gone.”
― The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State
From now on, I will take his advice and try walking straight ahead till I reach the other mountain. When I get there, the present will be gone.”
― The Raqqa Diaries: Escape from Islamic State
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