Quotes About Escapism

Is there anything more fundamentally human than the desire to live in another world, as someone other than our own earthbound selves?

You prefer fantastical endings rather than those which illustrate reality," Slater said. "In my view there are cheerful endings and sad endings but they are all fantastical by definition—otherwise they would not be classified as fiction.

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It's true that I've always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.

Also, now that I know roughly who I am, I want to close my eyes and hide from it.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

For me personally, I think I just enjoy movies about werewolves or vampires because it's not like an everyday thing. It's something you can really escape into.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

One of the things I like about what it is that I do... is that people can have a little bit of pretend.

I love pretending more than reality.

In our deepest places, we all wish we could live like Raoul Duke for a while.

I came close to depression, but when I started to feel I could really lose myself, I somehow escaped it.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

Even when I'm alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.

After all, it is fairy tales the world wants. Real life is all the real life we want. Give us something better in books.

I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

I don't believe I could live at times if I didn't pretend things.

Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.

fiction works because a part of the mind forgets that it's fiction while we're reading it.

When You're young, you get sad, and you get high.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.