Escapism Quotes

Escapism Quote of the day

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Understand, it’s never been easy to live, when we’re trying to escape ourselves.

Reality worked its way into my dreams where it wasn’t welcome.

I had drunk myself to oblivion, Stepped from the room into a dreamless slumber, My consciousness had parted ways, Taking a well-earned vacation.

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading a book which gets me to see the world through different eyes, I will always choose the latter!

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

I want to glide in a world of beauty, ’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the rat race that’s tricky.

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.

A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we’re a lawyer, an artist or a police officer.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.

There is no time to escape reality.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

We both knew no bounds to our escapism.

We were miles away from our real lives.

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love.

Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.

Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.

Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.

Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of.What are you running from?What are you waiting for?

An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.