Fantasy Escapism Quotes

#1. Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

Charles Robert Maturin

#2. This one was so lively and talkative, she paid no attention to him or his shyness, so he withdrew his feelers awkwardly and a little offended crawled back into himself like a snail brushed by a cartwheel.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Crying is almost totally avoidable if you follow two simple rules:
1. Don't care too much.
2. Shut up.

John Green

#4. Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Jasper Fforde

#5. I intend to dedicate my remaining time as president of the NRA to ensure that the Second Amendment is safe from Al Gore and all those who threaten it.

Charlton Heston

#6. I withdraw my consent from reality. I deny it my assistance. I dedicate myself to the temptations of escapism, and throw myself wholeheartedly into the endlessness of unreality.

Ursula Poznanski

#7. 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?

Laura Miller

#8. There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on
a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Graham Swift

#9. For every setback, do not get discouraged. Rejoice because you learned more than you expected.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life - which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

Jillian Michaels

#11. I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.

Virginia Henley

#12. A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.

Leon Leyson

#13. If Democrats want to start winning elections in this country, they're going to have to start connecting with voters as well as I connect with my fans.

Zach Braff

#14. This is Karma. I'm a bitch. Can you think of anyone who deserves a bitch slap? - Kat

Jenny Han

#15. You have so much to offer, she was often told, as if she had a tray of cigarettes and candy perpetually strapped to her waist.

Lily King

#16. Someone like you makes it hard to live without somebody else

Rod Stewart

#17. My rugrats give me gifts that say "#1 Mom" on them and I'm like, bwhahahahaha, joke's on you, I'm more like the #1,297,279 Mom. But they truly think I'm the best mom on earth. And that's all that matters.

Karen Alpert

#18. Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

Nenia Campbell

#19. Steampunk is...a joyous fantasy of the past, allowing us to revel in a nostalgia for what never was. It is a literary playground for adventure, spectacle, drama, escapism and exploration. But most of all it is fun!

George Mann

#20. I fantasize about making reality better.

Fierce Dolan

#21. All the picketers look bored and hot and like they

Anita Shreve

#22. Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

Travis Barker

#23. We live in God's amusement park.

Dean Koontz

#24. If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.

Brett Armstrong

#25. I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

James Cameron

#26. I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.

Ernest Cline