Quotes About Escapism

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not?

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

Because I tend to kind of hide under the sheets when it comes to reality television. I've seen probably one episode of maybe five different shows, and that's about it.

I don't know that any writing comes easily, but I certainly get more immersed in novels. I don't think the routine is any different, but fiction tends to pull me further away from my life. When I'm deep in a novel, I don't pay bills and I walk around in one shoe, drinking two-day old coffee, and calling my kids by the wrong names.

I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

Acting is an amazing job. I'm very lucky to do it, and when you're working with terrific people, telling stories you care about, and know it reaches an audience who care about it, too, there is an escapism in that.

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The rich and vivid imagining that served her so well on the page was torture in her real life sometimes, if she let her thoughts sweep her away.

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.

Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

America had left reality behind and entered the comic-book universe.

People drink alcohol and take drugs to try to feel how happy people feel normally.

But it's 'cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams.

But it's 'cause real life is what it is that a man needs daydreams. Most

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.

Our dreams are a second life.

In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.

I like to maintain a certain sense of fantasy in my life.

When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.