Escapism Quote by Ella Maillart Download Open image “That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.” — Ella Maillart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Escapism Life
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could… — Jason Diamond 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 in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“Hatsuyo ridiculed the movements of people like the socialists, or at best viewed them coolly. "I can't," she said, "hold a fixed philosophy about human society. What I do is gather people around me who feel like I do and live the kind of life that feels right. That is the kind of life that is most realistic and has… — Fumiko Kaneko Copy Share
I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in. It's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's TV shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the… — Colin Morgan Copy Share
“The newspaper articles that Joe had read about the upcoming Senate investigation into comic books always cited "escapism" among the litany of injurious consequences… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literature. As I understand it, the… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
Sometimes we need pure relief. Sometimes we need pure escapism. Sometimes we need major reflection on some aspects of our collective unconscious. — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
As a reader, sometimes, I just want to not think. You know, I want to read something that is purely enjoyable: that is, like,… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in… — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. — Ella Maillart Copy Share Image
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. — Ella Maillart 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 of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
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 and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism. — Arik Roper 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 waiting for?” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes… — Ben Saunders Copy Share Image
“Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.” — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of… — Stella Blum Copy Share
