Escapism Quotes · Page 3

Top Gear' is for the whole family, regardless of gender, sitting down together to enjoy some slightly silly escapism.

— Chris Harris

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

— Jackie French

“It's fogging a little, but I won't slip off and hide in it. No...never again...”

— Ken Kesey

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

— Sara Sheridan

“[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.”

— George Borrow

For me, makeup will always be about glamour, fantasy, and escapism!

— Violet Chachki

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

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I write thrillers for the same reason that people read them – it's escapism.”

— Ken McClure

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

— Dan Deacon

“To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astray and its inhabitants what could be a safer place than…

— Anna Jae

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the…

— Robbie Kay

There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have…

— Cherie Lunghi

If I'm watching 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta,' there's a part of that that's just escapism. I'm not watching it with a…

— Janet Mock

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it…

— James Cameron

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the…

— Sienna Miller

“If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face…

— Brett Armstrong

“Thus he spent his whole life searching for his own truth, but it remained hidden to him because he had learned at…

— Alice Miller

“Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth…

— Pauline Fisk

I don't go to the movies for escapism, so I don't make movies for it either. And it's totally fine that people…

— Ti West

We've been led to believe that we have a very dumbed-down society - and that people are not thinking and are just…

— Kamala Lopez

Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the…

— Vaclav Klaus

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words,…

— Michael Jackson

We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it…

— Ice Cube

Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write.…

— Ellen Kushner

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

— Shirley Jackson

“All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.”

— Jean Chapman

“Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors.”

— Hernan Diaz

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.

— Shelley Conn

“Art is just escapism." Liam muttered. "It's not escapism. It's the truth.”

— Kaisa Winter

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.

— Tab Hunter

“Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Lauren Jauregui

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

— Piers Anthony

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

— Charlie Kaufman

“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs…

— Shaun Hick

“You can be a bad experiencer and still be an overly mature person.”

— Abhaidev

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

— Wentworth Miller

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

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

— Dan Pearce

I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in…

— Bradley James