Quotes About Avoiding Reality

#1. The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible.

Anne Edwards

#2. You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

Oleg Cassini

#3. Smiling at someone can have significant health consequences.

Sharon Salzberg

#4. Kicking the can down the road implies that we're accepted the galling reality that whatever it is that we've avoiding, it's something that's not going to go away; at least on its own.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#5. But this was the first occasion I had come across someone for whom art was a means of avoiding reality rather than confronting it head on, an idea so strange to me that I didn't fully comprehend it at the time.

Deirdre Madden

#6. Your world won't fall apart when Jesus is the One holding it together.

Mandy Fender

#7. Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.

Rollo May

#8. IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#9. Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.

M. Scott Peck

#10. For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.

Steve Maraboli

#11. The American religion-so far as there is one anymore-seems to be doubt. Whoever believes the least wins, because he'll never be found wrong.

Mary Karr

#12. I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God.

Georges Bernanos

#13. It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

Ellen Burstyn

#14. You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

Ayn Rand

#15. This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Paul Tillich

#16. Travelling', she sighed.'So predictable.'
'What's wrong with travelling?'
'Avoiding reality more like.'
'I think reality is over-rated,' he said in the hope that this might come across as dark and charismatic.

David Nicholls

#17. Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#18. Life is mostly an exercise in being something other than what we used to be while remaining fundamentally - and sometimes maddeningly - who we are.

Meghan Daum

#19. [...]avoiding mistakes, looking for a way to make life perfect isn't reality. Reality is mistakes, failures, and heartache.

Kristen Kehoe

#20. Familialism consists of magically denying social reality, and avoiding all connections with the actual flux.

Felix Guattari

#21. Procrastination is your way of avoiding your fantasy of reality.

Gloria Arenson

#22. A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

Christian Morgenstern

#23. These were bad memories, but over the years I had brought them out and handled them so often there was hardly a sharp edge left to them.

Patrick Rothfuss

#24. What annoys people is the idea that somebody has everything, and they're allowed to get away with anything. It's the sense of entitlement that gets up people's noses.

Douglas Booth