Top 100 Quotes About Escapism
#1. It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
Michael Korda
#2. I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid.
Tim Walker
#3. I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.
Martin Donovan
#4. Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
T.C. Boyle
#5. I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans.
Will Poulter
#6. I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports.
Bradley James
#7. I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
Ernest Cline
#8. I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
Saadat Hasan Manto
#9. For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
Iggy Azalea
#10. 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
#11. To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.
Robbie Kay
#12. 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
#13. The only people who hate escapism are jailers.
C.S. Lewis
#14. I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?
Christopher Bollen
#15. I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
Halsey
#16. Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
Agnes Obel
#17. My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
Wayne Brady
#18. Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it.
Ben Saunders
#19. Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.
Ving Rhames
#20. 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
#21. Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
Lev Grossman
#22. 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
#23. It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism.
David Souter
#24. The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
C.S. Lewis
#25. Art is subjective and art as a form of entertainment escapism is as high art as any.
Miranda Hart
#26. That idea of escapism ... these words could sum up my life.
Ella Maillart
#27. As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.
Douglas Coupland
#30. I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.
Joshua Mohr
#31. Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
Josh Bowman
#32. The appeal of the paranormal bad boy - or James Bond super-spy, as one example of male escapism - can sometimes make everyday problems seem less dire. Thus, a few hours spent immersed in the world of the wicked yet alluring hero is the equivalent of a mini-vacation.
Jeaniene Frost
#33. A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public.
Ken Adam
#34. People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
Margaret Forster
#35. I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and ... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity ... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr
#36. Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.
Michael Jackson
#37. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Alexander McQueen
#38. A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
Wentworth Miller
#39. You're used to having a camera in your face when you're playing a character - it's like having a mask on. But when you have to be you, you're so worried you'll make an idiot of yourself. Acting is a kind of escapism.
Sheridan Smith
#41. I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
Michael Jackson
#42. Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.
David Lloyd
#43. I'm just a person who wants to be honest and do good, make people happy and give them the greatest sense of escapism through the talent God has given me. That's where my heart is, that's all I want to do. Just let me share and give, put a smile on people's faces and make their hearts feel happy.
Michael Jackson
#44. One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
Meg Cabot
#45. Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#46. My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.
Jess C. Scott
#47. I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.'
Kenneth Branagh
#48. When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#49. My books are just pure escapism for kids.
Dav Pilkey
#50. All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
Rachel Bloom
#51. In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz
#52. People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally.
Jasmine Guinness
#53. People love escapism and there should be a place for it.
Tom Hiddleston
#54. An escape can become escapism before we even know it. Books are wonderful things, but you can't live in someone else's story. You have to live your own story.
Jennifer Donnelly
#55. But perhaps the greatest escapism of all is to take refuge in the domesticity of the past, the home that history and literature become, avoiding the one moment of time in which we are not at home, yet have to live: the present.
Tim Parks
#56. Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
Andy Taylor
#57. One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.
Art Spiegelman
#58. A book is a place where my reality, escapism, hope, despair, love and death lie.
Nikita Dudani
#59. That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful.
Michael Jackson
#60. It wasn't just escapism, he persuaded himself. Sometimes the best ideas occur to you while your mind is occupied with something completely different. Pieces of the puzzle can suddenly fall into place.
David Lagercrantz
#61. Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'
Michael Jackson
#62. The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#63. People talk
they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.
Piers Anthony
#64. Escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to.
Terry Pratchett
#65. Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.
Kevin Focke
#66. Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
Maggie Stiefvater
#67. People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.
Melissa Joan Hart
#68. 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
#69. It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.
Todd Phillips
#70. It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.
Sienna Miller
#71. Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives ... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.
Hunter S. Thompson
#72. Escapism preserves our sanity when the ever-increasing complexity and pace of modern life becomes too much.
Fennel Hudson
#73. It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
Kate Reardon
#74. This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.
Steve Almond
#75. I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.
Charlie Kaufman
#76. Escapism always has its place, but when movies connect to other things around us and suggest implications that haven't been considered before, that's a dividend, too, even when our love of movies becomes complicated as a result.
Steve Erickson
#77. Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.
Robin Wright
#78. 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.
J. Maarten Troost
#79. One should not associate with controversy; one should always reach for the highest ratings; one should never forget that there is safety in numbers; one should always remember that comedy, adventure, and escapism provide the best atmosphere for selling.
Peter George Peterson
#80. For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.
Jackie French
#81. Rural and traditional escapism. That's my angle. Places and events where we are free to relax and be ourselves, where nobody tells us to hurry along or conform or grow up. Somewhere we can properly live.
Fennel Hudson
#83. When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing ...
John Geddes
#84. It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.
Summer Altice
#85. I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while.
Jeri Ryan
#86. I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.
Carmen Ejogo
#87. There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.
Cherie Lunghi
#88. Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
Jasper Fforde
#90. I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege.
Ben Barnes
#91. I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.
Saul Williams
#92. I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics.
Art Spiegelman
#93. Many do not have the courage to face the truth of life and instead dwell upon some delusions to escape it. Any such escapism is a major hurdle in spiritual development.
Thomas Vazhakunnathu
#94. Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
Chuck D
#95. People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of 'Guardians of the Galaxy'. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it.
Matthew Vaughn
#96. I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend.
Richard D. Zanuck
#97. All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.
Jean Chapman
#98. I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
Peter Hook
#100. Internal growth and development were not entirely unaffected by my external environment. No amount of escapism, through either the physical or the mental outlets, could cushion me from the reality of what was taking place.
Sara Niles
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