Quotes About Escapism

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

I've thrown way more movie parties than real parties. My real life is so much more boring.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

we hunger for other worlds. We long to go beyond the streets we know, beyond our familiar woods and fields, and into the land of Faerie; to Middle-earth, Narnia, or Summerland; to the kingdom east of the sun and west of the moon. This longing isn't incidental.

I don't know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

Ce-mi place mie este s? citesc romanele, nu s? le fac autopsia.

Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

Some people don't want to be sober. They don't want reality. After life trips them, they choose to stay facedown in the mud.

In the drawer of the old piece of furniture which stood just at the right hand of his own arm-chair there were various books hidden away, which he was sometimes ashamed to have seen by his clients, — poetry and novels and even fairy tales. For there was nothing Mr. Wharton could not read in his chambers, though there was nothing that he could read in his own house.

There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel

We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through sobriety together, drink by drink, until we occupied a separate reality from the rest of the world.

I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine. What? Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.

When the reality was depressing, men tried to console themselves with myth.

Paris, that feminine and flirtatious refuge from reality.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

To live a fantasy is to avoid a life.