I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on… — Tuppence Middleton Copy Share Image
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
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… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
“[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment,… — Ted Gioia Copy Share Image
“Researchers have speculated that those who fantasize about how wonderful life could be are ill prepared for the setbacks that frequently occur… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
“As the boat filled and capsized, the aluminum boom flew across the cockpit and hit the side of Tiger’s head. The world… — Grahame Shannon Copy Share Image
The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's… — Richard D. Zanuck Copy Share Image
I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France,… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“Some people call reading an escape, but it's not - it's embracing the true reality of the best parts of who we… — Sean Gibson Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
“Often the most tricky questions are the ones we secretly know the answers of. What are you running from? What are you… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring… — Kate Reardon Copy Share Image
“When a movie character is really working, we become that character. That’s what the movies offer: escapism into lives other than our… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a… — Jef Murray Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
“Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary… — George Mann Copy Share Image
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me,… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
“Belle hesitated. “What is this place?” she asked. “A bit of magic, like all goodbooks,” the man replied. “An escape. A place… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Escapism has its place. I used to write 'Conan the Barbarian' for Marvel, which takes place in an environment completely removed from… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I'd been to Mosul and back and forth to Iraq and Latin America, and it was all quite harrowing... and I felt… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
“He turns toward the voice. It is as though the darkness itself has spoken. But when he looks closer he can make… — Lucy Foley Copy Share Image
I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Hats off to musicians who just want a pure escape. I have a lot of fondness for pure escapism. I don't feel… — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
“Masterpiece" lives on and on because it brilliantly does one of the things television is supposed to do: it entertains and distracts.… — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
“I took another road, past the old sugar works and the water wheel that had not turned for years. I went to… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish… — Daniel Pennac Copy Share Image
The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were… — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
![“[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of the characters [and soon found myself] in made-up circumstances which were most agreeable to my inclinations.” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/500/jean-jacques-rousseau-418_book_when-under-stress-i-thought-of-the-books_1128017.png)
