Escapism Quotes
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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
Escapism is survival to me.
— Johnny Depp
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
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
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 achedit 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
Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.
— Leigh M. Lane
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
— Wentworth Miller
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
My books are just pure escapism for kids.
— Dav Pilkey
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
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 is escapism, it's entertainment.
— Andy Taylor
Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.
— Perry Farrell
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 horrorswe 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
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
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
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
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
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