Escapism Quotes · Page 3

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

— John Lasseter

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

— Oscar Wilde

An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

— Thucydides

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

— Melissa Joan Hart

A lot of the time you forget that movies are entertainment, and they're just a couple fun hours of escapism.

— Iman Vellani

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

— Michael Jackson

I love all that kind of gothic Bram Stoker kind of thing. I love to get lost in that kind of escapism.

— Rob Halford

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

— Chris Harris

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film…

— Ben Barnes

What 'Escapism' did, of course I'm over the moon about that - but if that's the biggest moment that I ever get…

— Raye

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music…

— Peter Hook

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

— Nenia Campbell

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

— C. S. Lewis

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for…

— Christopher Priest

I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which…

— Walter Bonatti

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as…

— Michael Jackson

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

As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of…

— Douglas Coupland

“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

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

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

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

— Jeri Ryan

I was extremely into the escapism of fantasy, so series like 'Redwall' and 'Eragon' were my bread and butter.

— Ethel Cain

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

— Robert J. Sawyer

“The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of?”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Idris Elba

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

— Adam Cohen

Music for me was a release, an escapism and it was really exciting.

— Vick Hope

“I wanted to just sink into my media downloads for a while and pretend I didn't exist.”

— Martha Wells

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

— Arik Roper

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

— Paul Young

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

— Freddie Mercury

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

— Porter Robinson

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

— James Rozoff

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

— Agnes Obel

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

— Rajkumar Hirani

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

— Rachel Bloom