Quotes About Escapism

I resent almost all of the time I spend in front of the television, but I find 'The Only Way Is Essex' absolutely riveting.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

In a movie, that's the only time when you're allowed these kind of fantasies to be lived. Being able to look so cool and be able to fight five bad guys and take them down. When can you do that?

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

GET YOURSELF TOGETHER DRINK TILL YOU DROP FORGET ABOUT TOMORROW AND HAVE ANOTHER SHOT

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her real life.

knocking back the wine and reaching for the cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction

I bore daily witness to the seemingly cramped lives of my grandparents, the disappointments they filled with TV and liquor and sometimes a new appliance or car.

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.

Rationalization was my narcotic. And, as with all drugs, over time, I habituated to mine. I needed more and more to accomplish less and less. Eventually, there was no dose at all that could confer the comfort I craved.

you should not seek transcendence as a means of escapism. Remember van Eeden's demon-dreams. You must first be willing to deal with whatever problems you may find on your personal level.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.

he shrunk more and more from the realities of life and above all from the society of his day which he regarded with an ever growing horror,--a detestation which had reacted strongly on his literary and artistic tastes; he refused, as far as possible, to have anything to do with pictures and books whose subjects were in any way connected with modern existence.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.

It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS." - Wade Owen Watts Ready Player One

At the end of the day, I was still a virgin, all alone in a dark room, humping a lubed-up robot.