Quotes About Escapism

I was living out of a hotel for weeks with nothing but a case full of Love Island' bikinis.

I'm a huge 'Bachelor' fan!

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.

He hadn't abused alcohol, but had spent almost four years sitting in a chair drinking jug wine around the clock and looking, variously, at the wall, the window blind, and the TV screen.

Daydreams can be dangerous.

She is reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. A sci-fi girl. Abused women like escapism, of course.

But then almost everyone nowadays had two lives, his own and his life at the movies.

You should dream more. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.' 2

She got up and he saw the skin of her thigh for a moment above the artificial silk, and a prick of sexual desire disturbed him like a sickness. That was what happened to a man in the end: the stuffy room, the wakeful children, the Saturday night movements from the other bed. Was there no escape––anywhere––for anyone? It was worth murdering a world.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

I know how addictive videogames are - I have friends who can't get up off the couch because they're so hooked. They provide these different virtual worlds that you can live in.

People are looking for a simplicity in their fictional worlds where good and evil are clearly delineated, that you can't find in the real world, and that provides an enormous comfort - and that, I think, has an awful lot to do with the reason fantasy is so popular.

You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you're so worried you'll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.

I think we live in a time where we can all distract ourselves from facing the pain or the reality of all of our lives - tons of ways to hide, to kill pain, to deal with pain.

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels." (p. 57).

She believed now in earnest that fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

I get really into shows, but then I have my brain shut off time.