Quotes About Escapism

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

This is better than real life.

The mere fact of Vegas, its necessity, was an indictment of our normal lives. If we needed this place--to transform into a high roller or a sexy swinger, to be someone else, a winner for once--then certainly the world beyond the desert was a small and mealy place indeed.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

You think that's enough? Do you know how many episode of Jersey Shore you can watch before you want to gouge your own eyes? i do, and it's probably a lot fewer than you guess.

Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libros viejos y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

To Lexie, the world seemed nearly perfect, and her fantasies were her real life with all the colors dialed up.

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

This scene is adapted to my temper. Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Then trust me there's nothing like drinking, So pleasant on this side of the grave: It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

Books at bedtime, most enchanting Half-asleep, dipping our cozy feet Into fantasy and dreams so sweet.

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

I am Madame Bovary.

You have built a wall of concrete shit between yourself and reality.

We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

When I watch movies - when I watch 'Star Wars' - you want to watch the fun characters, the diversions.

As soon as I started reading, I found myself drawn to fictional character's homes as much as I was to the characters themselves.