Quotes About Escapism

You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them !

Change is hard, and sometimes I think I should just turn to drugs and stay high and not worry about a damn thing.

We dream of times that are not and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts. —BLAISE PASCAL

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.

Escapism isn't good or bad of itself. What is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. I write from experience, since in my case I escaped to the idea that books could be really enjoyable, an aspect of reading that teachers had not hitherto suggested.

Humans need fantasy to be human.

Most people have some means of filling up the gap between perception and reality, and, after all, in those circumstances there are far worse things than gin.

Part of the reason I joined Joy Division was so that I really wouldn't have to grow up.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

I munch candy bar after candy bar as I move deeper into the nutty place.

Rachel, on the other hand, always had her nose in a book and her head in the clouds.

I'm not that crazy about reality, but that's all I've got.

She had never been without a book for as long as she could remember. An only child never is.

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

For years the psychic balm of alcohol—its holy grail certainty that it could take me through anything—eclipsed the hangovers and emerging fear that I was in trouble. I had a silver pocket flask that I filled with whiskey for backup drinks; I figured if I looked the part, then I could get away with the reality.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

More wine helps; it takes the edge off the despair.

Zombies, werewolves, vampires and ghosts are an escape from the real world because they don't exist in the real world.

Reality poisons the spring of fantasy, whereas fantasy, when it erupts into the real world, brings destruction in its wake.