"It might feel good to be out of your body for awhile. But you can't stay like that forever"
About this Quote
Coming from a businessman, the subtext reads like an anti-pitch against the culture of hacks and shortcuts. Entrepreneurs traffic in optimization: outsource pain, automate effort, convert limits into “problems” to be solved. This quote undercuts that ethos by insisting on an unscalable constraint. You can rent distance from yourself; you can’t buy permanent exemption from having a nervous system, a history, a bill to pay.
It also smuggles in a moral claim without preaching: disembodiment isn’t just unhealthy, it’s unsustainable. Relationships, accountability, and even pleasure require presence. The line’s power is its plainness - no therapy-speak, no metaphysics, just the blunt physics of being human. Escape feels like control. Staying out becomes abandonment.
Quote Details
| Topic | Mental Health |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Chiu, Alex. (2026, January 17). It might feel good to be out of your body for awhile. But you can't stay like that forever. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-might-feel-good-to-be-out-of-your-body-for-40077/
Chicago Style
Chiu, Alex. "It might feel good to be out of your body for awhile. But you can't stay like that forever." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-might-feel-good-to-be-out-of-your-body-for-40077/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It might feel good to be out of your body for awhile. But you can't stay like that forever." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/it-might-feel-good-to-be-out-of-your-body-for-40077/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




