About Quote by Washed Out

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

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

escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.

— Terry Pratchett

People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

— Charlie Brooker

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

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

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

— Miuccia Prada

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

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

“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

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

— Oneohtrix Point Never

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred…

— Carolyn Heilbrun