Escapism Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is no time to escape reality.

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.

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

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

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.

We both knew no bounds to our escapism.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.

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

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

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