Escapism Quotes

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a re...

People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the wo...

How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to ...

Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading ...

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I ...

Escapist creativity is that which lacks encounter.

The walls were lined with books, many of them in foreign languages, like insulation against the imme...

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret thin...

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop ...

His eyeless skull took in the line of costumes, the waxy debris of the makeup table. His empty nostr...

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened...

We have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until...

[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as m...

In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as “escapist” literatu...

To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th centur...

My attraction to drugs is based on an immense desire to annihilate awareness.

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu...

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to ...

For I need not remind such an audience as this that the neat sorting out of books into age-groups, s...

Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imp...

The more unsettled and unbalanced we feel, the more quickly and recklessly we are likely to fall in ...

I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate n...

While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none th...

Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever t...

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old s...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...

I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h...

We were miles away from our real lives.