19 Thought-Provoking Quotes About Escapism (and How to Deal With It)

November 11, 2020

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19 Thought-Provoking Quotes About Escapism (and How to Deal With It)

Last Modified: November 11, 2020

Here’s a collection of quotes which hint at ways of creating a life you don’t need to escape from. They hint at taking action and focusing on our own happiness first and foremost, digging down to the root cause of what makes us feel those negative feelings in the first place. Once we do that, we can go about creating a life and work situation that inspires us to leap out of bed every morning.

Blake Miner

Blake is a traveling social scientist (MSocSc) and entrepreneur who writes about the psychology of personal freedom, travel, and location independent business. He's the founder of Flâneur Life, an internet home for free range humans.

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”
Seth Godin

“The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.”
Albert Einstein

“Escapism isn’t good or bad in itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.”
Terry Pratchett

“Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.”
J. Maarten Troost

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
James Joyce

“The surest way to escape anxiety and defeat despair is action. Do, don’t dwell.”
Michael Josephson

“No one can escape life’s pain. That’s life.”
Pierce Brosnan

“For intelligent people, action often means escape from thought, but it is a reasonable and a wise escape.”
Andre Maurois

“If you escape from people too often, you wind up escaping from yourself.”
Marvin Gaye

“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.”
Roland Barthes

“We spend more time developing means of escaping our troubles than we do solving the troubles we’re trying to escape from.”
David Lloyd

“People talk about escapism as if it’s a bad thing…Once you’ve escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn’t have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.”
Neil Gaiman

“No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life.”
Ernest Renan

“You can not escape a prison if you do not know you’re in one.”
Vernon Howard

“It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.”
Alice Hoffman

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
Terry Pratchett