Escapism Quotes

Escapism Quote of the day

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

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

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

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

I think escapism is really important.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

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

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

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.

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

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

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

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

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.

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

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation.

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

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?