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I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. — Khaled Hosseini

What his time spent with women offered was the opportunity 2 be embraced by reality on the one hand, while negating it entirely on the other — Haruki Murakami

We offer a stark contrast to the bland escapism that chokes the charts, — Tom Morello

Escapism is survival to me. — Johnny Depp

The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. — C.S. Lewis

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter. — Rollo May

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. — Alexander McQueen

All those other lives. You never did get to lead them. — Mark Haddon

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is. — Iggy Azalea

Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work. — Fennel Hudson

Escapism seems to be the order of the day ... Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of living will be blurred ... We can't escape from God. — Billy Graham

It's fogging a little, but I won't slip off and hide in it. No ... never again ... — Ken Kesey

I fantasize about making reality better. — Fierce Dolan

We both knew no bounds to our escapism. — Hannah Lillith Assadi

The only people who hate escapism are jailers. — C.S. Lewis

So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back. — Wally Lamb

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. — Alberto Manguel

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun. — Charlie Kaufman

Read until my eyes ached
it was hardly important
but proof again that there is always an escape. — Lily Koppel

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while. — Jeri Ryan

Acting has always been such escapism for me. — Kelly Reilly

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own. — Nenia Campbell

Music can be a source of escapism. — Danielle De Niese

You were trying to find a way to get rid of yourself,
but you were still left with your mouth. — Kris Kidd

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism. — Maggie Stiefvater

Imagination is the first step to escapism.... — Sultry Summers

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today. — Robin Wright

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think. — Leigh M. Lane

A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie. — Nikita Dudani

People talk
they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it. — Piers Anthony

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness. — Anais Nin

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. — Wentworth Miller

Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any. — Miranda Hart

If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end. — Brett Armstrong

Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide. — Drew Magary

When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing ... — John Geddes

My books are just pure escapism for kids. — Dav Pilkey

I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content. — Dan Deacon

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth. — Steve Almond

It's more like... It keeps the world out so I can be in my own thoughts. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

I've indulged all my escapist dreams. I'm here, away from everyone, living it up. Being a selfish and antisocial git. — Fennel Hudson

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in love. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. — Agnes Obel

It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill. — Todd Phillips

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism. — Rachel Weisz

My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism. — Jess C. Scott

There is no time to escape reality. — Lange Weile

Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life. — Roger Moore

I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere — Karina Cooper

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it. — Rachel Bloom

People love escapism and there should be a place for it. — Tom Hiddleston

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. — John Lasseter

This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for the rest of the afternoon. — Rebecca Raisin

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. — Chuck D

Music is escapism, it's entertainment. — Andy Taylor

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism. — Perry Farrell

I talk too much, but there's a lot unsaid. I've slept in a lot of beds. — Kris Kidd

People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally. — Jasmine Guinness

I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality. — Ernest Cline

All we do is work to maximise our consumption privileges and to be able to tell people at parties that we're a lawyer, an artist or a police officer. — Robert Wringham

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

I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything — Chelsea Handler

He's an escapist. He wants to cultivate his interior garden. — Nathanael West

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors
we hope
of your life come from reading fiction. — Orson Scott Card

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. — Shirley Jackson

Imagination is the first stage of escapism. — Sheila N. Eskew

I love stories that suck you in, that you can't stop reading because you are quite simply there. — Sara Sheridan

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out. — Jean Chapman

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

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film. — Freddie Mercury

It's not possible to run away from yourself. Unless, of course, you're schizophrenic and can take holidays outside your mind. — Fennel Hudson

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality. — Melissa Joan Hart

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses. — Michael Jackson

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything. — Michael Jackson

I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k. — Saul Williams

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres. — Jasper Fforde

Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Can you smell it? The scent of new books. Unread adventures. Friends you haven't met yet, hours of magical escapism awaiting you. — Katarina Bivald

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 beings. — Josh Bowman

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

Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world. — Lev Grossman

These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. — Virginia Woolf

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed. — Ving Rhames

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me. — David Lloyd

We were miles away from our real lives. — Maggie Stiefvater

We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

That idea of escapism ... these words could sum up my life. — Ella Maillart

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful! — Margaret Forster

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the immediate present. — Ross Macdonald

Escapism preserves our sanity when the ever-increasing complexity and pace of modern life becomes too much. — Fennel Hudson

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something? — Christopher Bollen

Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world. — Kevin Focke

Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do. — Dan Pearce

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment. — James Rozoff

Sleeping is the most common attempt to temporarily escape reality. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. — Ruth Rendell

We each devise our means of escape from the intolerable. — William Styron