Escapism Quotes
93 quotes by 85 authors
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody…
— Wayne Brady
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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…
— James Cameron
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It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting,…
— Summer Altice
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The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick fix over the…
— Ravi Zacharias
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
— Thucydides
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Being often with many leading politicians, I feel frustrated that they do not listen. They already know. They fully subscribed to the idea that talking…
— Vaclav Klaus
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I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right…
— Michael Jackson
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I’m just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the…
— Michael Jackson
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People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
— Piers Anthony
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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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…
— Sienna Miller
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I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while
— Jeri Ryan
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I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will…
— Edward R. Murrow
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For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the…
— Walter Bonatti
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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…
— Walter Bonatti
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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…
— Rachel Wade
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Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not…
— Walter Wink
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One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one…
— Peter George Peterson
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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…
— Saadat Hasan Manto
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People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
— Margaret Forster
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