Quotes About Escapism

I had spent hundreds of hours gazing out at the calm, conquered suburban landscape surrounding my school, silently yearning for the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse, a freak accident that would give me super powers, or perhaps the sudden appearance of a band of time-traveling kleptomaniac dwarves.

It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity," he wrote. "A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. —Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. —Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1–2

Morrow […] felt that OASIS had evolved into something horrible. "It had become a self-imposed prison for humanity. A pleasant place for the world to hide from its problems while human civilization slowly collapses, primarily due to neglect.

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.

Even though it was initially marketed as a new kind of massively multiplayer online game, the OASIS quickly evolved into a new way of life.

Then there was Middle-earth. All three versions of it…

I quickly lost track of time. I forgot that my avatar was sitting in Halliday's bedroom and that, in reality, I was sitting in my hideout, huddled near the electric heater, tapping at the empty air in front of me, entering commands on an imaginary keyboard. All of the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game. In

Standing there, under the bleak fluorescents of my tiny one-room apartment, there was no escaping the truth. In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit. A recluse. A pale-skinned pop culture–obsessed geek. An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact. I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.

Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.

Neal Stephenson.

Ernest Cline

Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante. Los videojuegos son lo único que la hacen soportable.

O ser humano é uma porcaria na maior parte do tempo. Os videogames são a única coisa que torna a vida suportável.

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Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable.

I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually. Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.

Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.