Avoiding Reality Quotes

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

The young have a genius for discovering imagined grievances. It goes without saying that imagined grievances cannot be cured but they enable the young to evade those aspects of reality which do not minister to their self-importance... .

I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

What's wrong with living in a dream world? You have to wake up.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

… the pain we have suffered would have been for naught—and we would only be putting off until some later time an even more painful day of reckoning.

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

It definitely feels like I'm living a dream, but I try not to pinch myself because I don't want to wake up.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.