Burden Quote by James Randi

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

Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human…

— Josh Bowman

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

— John Kenneth Galbraith

One of our continuing myths was summed up in Huckleberry Finn: Our escape, what we think of as our escape, is that we can…

— Donald E. Westlake

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…

— Colin Morgan

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…

— Neil Gaiman

“To become the spectator of one’s own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.”

— Oscar Wilde

Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as well…

— Michael O'Brien

“In the beginning his dream and his happiness, in the end it was his bitter fate...But in the midst of the freedom he had…

— Hermann Hesse

“what does travel ultimately produce if it is not, by a sort of reversal, 'an exploration of the deserted places of my memory,' the…

— Michel de Certeau

“[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it…

— Daniel Radcliffe