Escapism Quotes

93 Escapism quotes by 85 unique authors

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… — Joshua Mohr
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun. — Charlie Kaufman
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to… — Keira Knightley
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. — Alexander McQueen
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life. — Roger Moore
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and… — Gabrielle Union
Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right… — Daniel Pennac
Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and… — Hunter S. Thompson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think)… — C.S. Lewis
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. — Alberto Manguel
Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep… — J. Maarten Troost
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that… — Eric Hoffer
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of… — Cornelia Funke
The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns… — Neil Gaiman
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,… — Arthur C. Clarke
Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows… — Terry Pratchett
People love escapism and there should be a place for it. — Tom Hiddleston
People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when… — Neil Gaiman
Music can be a source of escapism. — Danielle de Niese
I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality… — Will Poulter
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the… — Carmen Ejogo
I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports. — Bradley James
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on… — Douglas Coupland

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