Quotes About Escapism

I walk around engrossed in my stories and worlds, and I love losing myself in them!

Sometimes our fantasies are better than our realities.

When you flip hamburgers, sit at a computer all day, unpack and shelve merchandise from China year after year, you manage the tedium better if you have a shallow inner life, one you can escape through booze, drugs, sex, media, or other low level addictive behaviors. Easier to keep sane if your inner life is shallow. School, thought Harris the great American schoolman, should prepare ordinary men and women for lifetimes of alienation. Can you say he wasn't fully rational?

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

All I do is go to the movies.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels.

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

Fantasy Man's my favourite, I think, because he's sort of like Don Quixote. He lives in a fantasy world, but he gets jolted back into reality, and I guess that's me, really!

I love, love, love the reality shows on Bravo. It's great mindless television.

I like watching a lot of reality television.

There are so many reasons to be sad in the club.

I've always been a rule-breaker and a rebel. For me, drag has always been about rebellion, but also escapism. I think being able to creatively direct your own world is super powerful - and it's beautiful.

I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.

Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.

No matter what's happening in my life, I can always get lost in the romances of my characters.

Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?

I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.

The restaurant industry in New York in the '80s was a good place to hide out if you had issues.

It's very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop.

Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun!

The creation of virtual worlds had taken the place of advances in the physical world. "You can say the whole Internet has something very escapist to it