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Quotes About Escapism

I tell you I know the type of people that become Medievalists. They're soft, dreamy people who find life too hard for them here and get lost in an ideal world of the past that never really existed.
~ Isaac Asimov
Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.
~ Isaac Asimov
We are to do nothing, is that right, except to wait in quiet serenity and utter faith for the deus ex machina to pop out of the Vault?" "Stripped of your emotional phraseology, that's the idea." "Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it." Fara smiled indulgently. "Your taste in epigrams is amusing, Hardin, but out of place.
~ Isaac Asimov
escondían las horas? Se me escurrían como sal entre los dedos, vivía en un compás de espera, pero no había nada que esperar, sólo otro día exacto al anterior, aletargada frente a la televisión con Freddy.
~ Isabel Allende
Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.
~ Diplo
I love watching 'The Real Housewives of New York.' That's my guilty pleasure. But I don't even feel guilty. I can just watch it, zone out, and forget about my problems.
~ Lauren Lapkus
If you're unwell you can simply cuddle up in bed and tune into a thriller. It's the best remedy.
~ Sriram Raghavan
More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.
~ Patrick deWitt
TV is my sleeping pill.
~ David Janssen
Strip clubs are the only place the band can go if we want to have a drink. You're left alone because the last thing the people there care about is us.
~ Scott Stapp
I may know that the world is an ugly place, I still don't want to see it.
~ Muriel Barbery
I'm one of those people that, when I read or get encapsulated by a world, I want to live and breathe and be there.
~ Nick Willing
And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!
~ Susanna Clarke
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.
~ Susanna Kaysen
Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.
~ Suzanne Collins
Maybe they were onto something in Six. Drug yourself out and paint flowers on your body. Not such a bad life. Seemed happier than the rest of us, anyway.
~ Suzanne Collins
As happy as some daydream would make him, it only made returning to reality more painful.
~ Suzanne Collins
For me, it´s sloth," I say. "Hedonistic sloth and escapism.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.
~ Brion James
This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives.
~ David Gemmell
I just enjoyed telling stories. I enjoyed watching films and reading and becoming someone else. I spent a lot of time on my own when I was younger; I enjoyed my own company and still do, so it was a source of escapism.
~ Tuppence Middleton
I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.
~ Julia Hall
When your dreams get fulfilled in dreams, wouldn't you rather skip reality?
~ Nico J. Genes
If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light of reality found them, perhaps they could be happy.
~ D.A. Henneman, Sea of Dreams