Quotes About Escapism

I think everybody wants to feel validated in some way, and when you're looking for leisure activities or if you're looking for escapism or things like that, you want to read about characters you can identify with.

People who read fiction are different from other people because they are people who are interested in an imagined world.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

There are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

we use TV as we use tranquilizers- to even things out, to blot out unpleasantness, to dilute confusion, distress, unhappiness, loneliness.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Everyone is worthy of finding love and enjoying escapist fantasies of a life of dancing, romance, and ambition.

I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.

One thing Tolkien does incredibly well - and this is from a lay person's point of view; I am not scholar or anything - is that you don't have to make an effort to envisage the worlds that he writes about.

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature, and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.

Madame Bovary, c'est moi.

No se piensa en nada –continuaba él–, las horas pasan. Uno recorre sin moverse países que cree estar viendo, y el pensamiento, siguiendo a la ficción, se recrea en los detalles o sigue el hilo de las aventuras. Se identifica con los personajes y parece que es uno mismo quien palpita bajo sus ropas.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests.

The more he withdrew from the world around him, the more wonderful became his dreams.

His drinking, of course, only aggravated what it was meant to alleviate.

O quanto mais se afastava do mundo ao redor, mais exuberantes tornavam-se os sonhos;

I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Fantasies were like prisoners, less likely to stage a revolt if allowed judicious amounts of supervised exercise.

From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.