{"quotes":[{"text":"It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["departure-from-reality","depression","escape-from-reality","suicide"],"id":4469,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"And when it's quiet,you can hear your thoughts.You try to escape,but you don't realize,that you are trapped,trapped within your thoughts.","author":"Keysi Baker","tags":["deep","escape-from-reality","thoughts"],"id":21961,"author_id":"Keysi+Baker"},{"text":"We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. *How* we do it is what defines us.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["anger","defining-yourself","drugs","escape","escape-from-reality","escaping-life","religion"],"id":29087,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"I thought of all the summer evenings I'd spent sitting in the chairs under the trees beside the trailer, reading books that helped me escape Creek View, at least for a little while. Magical kingdoms, Russian love triangles, and the March sisters couldn't have been further away from the trailer park.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["book","books","books-reading","escape","escape-from-reality","little-women","louisa-may-alcott","love-of-books","love-of-reading","read","reading","reading","trailer","trailer-park"],"id":71115,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"},{"text":"Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["boredom","boredom-and-attitude","boredom-of-soul","boredom","depression","depression","discontent","discontentment","disquiet","disquietude","escape-from-reality","escapism","sadness","sadness","suffering","suffering-life","suffering-of-humanity","suffering","tedium"],"id":136824,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Yeah, I mean, most people want to escape. Get out of their heads. Out of their lives. Stories are the easiest way to do that.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["books","escape","escape-from-reality","peace-of-mind","reading"],"id":259368,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined my own) and which nobody else in our house ever troubled. From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company. They kept alive my fancy, and my hope of something beyond that place and time . . .","author":"Charles Dickens","tags":["escape-from-reality","literature","love-of-literature"],"id":275343,"author_id":"Charles+Dickens"},{"text":"Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether we wish to embrace all experience and encounters in life or seek escape from various aspect of human nature. How we resolve to address existential anguish becomes a large part of our personal story.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["escape-from-reality","escapism","existential-angst","existential-crisis","experiences","fear","fear-of-death","freedom-of-thought","human-nature","personal-accountability"],"id":283280,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.","author":"Karin Slaughter","tags":["books","escape","escape-from-reality","improvement","life"],"id":286021,"author_id":"Karin+Slaughter"},{"text":"My eyes roved over the walls covered with my collages and prints of famous paintings. Magritte, Kandinsky, Kahlo. My origami shapes hung from fishing wire, dangling over my bed. They shivered in the slight breeze blowing through my open window. It was my own little escape pod, but none of it was enough tonight.","author":"Heather Demetrios","tags":["art","artist","artists","bed","bedroom","dream","dreamer","escape","escape-from-reality","escape-pod","origami","painting","paintings"],"id":291132,"author_id":"Heather+Demetrios"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}