Quotes About Escapism

I am an avid television watcher.

I realized that, for me, travel for work - I'm not speaking so much about travel for pleasure - had actually become a way of avoiding life.

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

I drink to forget I drink.

I can understand wanting to escape your life and be someone else.

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

I'm against escapist entertainment.

Every night, I watch films.

Reading is a vice which can replace all other vices or temporarily take their place in more intensely helping people live, it is a debauchery, a consuming addiction. No, I don't take any drugs, I take books.

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. …Tell the others right away, "No, I don't want to watch TV!… I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!

Tenere i piedi sollevati è la prima condizione per godere della lettura.

Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.

Christopher Hitchens once said that he drinks "because it makes other people less boring.

Reading is like] the sex act—done privately, and often in bed.

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

For all reality TV, and all the viewers of reality TV, just be entertained. Don't invest your feelings, your heart, your soul into reality TV. It is entertainment. And that's all that it should be.

The gaming world isn't filled only with violence and depravity. In fact, it's mostly enchanting.

What's really astounding to me is a lot of the guys at Oculus VR and other companies who were creating VR tell me that 'Ready Player One' is one of their primary inspirations in getting into virtual reality.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls." But he also said this: "Who looks inside, awakes.

With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination.

her book. Ngaio Marsh. Myrna was re-reading the classics.

For example, a chronically depressed man who becomes a superachieving executive through his work addiction can feel only when he is working. An alcoholic or drug addict feels high with mood-altering drugs. A food addict feels a sense of fullness and well-being when his stomach is full. Each addiction allows the person to feel good feelings or to avoid painful ones.