Escapism Quote by Nathanael West Download Open image ““He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden.”” — Nathanael West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Escapism Garden Gardening
“Voltaire—you know him? He said that a man should cultivate his own garden. Guess I’m with him on that.” — Holly Chamberlin Copy Share Image
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“I would like to build a garden,' she declared. 'After all of this... I think the world needs more gardens.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“Somewhere beyond right and wrong, there is a garden. I will meet you there.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
“Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“We must see creation as a garden and not exclusively as a business opportunity.” — Bruce Sanguin Copy Share Image
“I don't want to return to the world outside these Gardens. All I want is to notice the dew on a leaf. The holy… — Tor Udall Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I can make you understand. Let’s start from the beginning. A man is hired to give advice to the readers of a newspaper.… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
He felt as though his heart were a bomb, a complicated bomb that would result in a simple explosion, wrecking the world without rocking… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“He Sat in the window thinking. Man has a tropism for order. Keys in one pocket, change in the other. Mandolins are tuned G… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily. — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“But now let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Under the skin of man is… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
You once said to me that I talk like a man in a book. I not only talk, but think and feel like one.… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.” — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“His mouth formed an O with lips torn angry in laying duck's eggs from a chicken's rectum.” — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears. When they finish, they feel better. But to those without hope, whose anguish is… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
What 'Escapism' did, of course I'm over the moon about that - but if that's the biggest moment that I ever get then so… — Raye Copy Share Image
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism. — Arik Roper Copy Share Image
“Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of. What are you running from? What are you waiting for?” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.” — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
