Quotes & Sayings About Escaping Reality Through Books

If New Horizons is, like Kaylee said, the tool God gave me to create a better life, I'm pretty sure I'm using it wrong. — Jessica Verdi

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. — Oscar Wilde

I've always been entranced by writing. — Marv Levy

But when you are week the best way to fortify yourself is to strip the people you fear of the last bit of prestige you're still inclined to give them. Learn to consider them they are, worse than they are in fact and from every point of view. That will release you, set you free, protect you more than you can possibly imagine. It will give you another self. There will be two of you.
That will strip their words and deeds of the obscene mystical fascination that weakens you and makes you waste your time. From then on you'll find their act no more amusing, no more relevant to your inner progress than that of the lowliest pig. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear. — Hunter S. Thompson

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The young man, born to rule England, which his dying father commended to him. Once his father is dead, London will cavil. The kingdom is taken back from his son. — Nostradamus

Beauty does not come with creams and lotions. God can give us beauty, but whether that beauty remains or chagnes is determined by our thoughts and deeds. — Dolores Del Rio

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition. — Robert Green Ingersoll

One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes. — Alexandre Dumas-fils