Escapism Quotes

• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

  Wentworth Miller

  Inspirational, Book, Creativity

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• 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

  Escaping, Important, Where You Are

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• People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Skills, People

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

  Shirley Jackson

  Life, Reality, Long

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.34, Penguin

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• Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.

  Jean Cocteau

  Lying, Mean, Men

  "On Invisibility". "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1953.

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• People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!

  Margaret Forster

  People, Nasty, Wonderful

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• Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

  Eric Hoffer

  Fear, Men, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Friday, Fun, Night

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• Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

  John Lydon

  Running, Reality, Views

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

  Lena Dunham

  Reality, Form

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• 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

  Moving, Appreciate, Feel Good

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 25, 2014

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• That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

  Ella Maillart

  Ideas, Literature

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• I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while

  Jeri Ryan

  Character, Littles, Slipping

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• The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, People, Jailer

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• 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

  Art, Reality, People

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• Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.

  Andre Breton

  Children, Wife, Mistress

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• 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

  Healthy, World, Way

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.

  Roger Moore

  Real, Real Life, Meant To Be

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Good Life, Rain, Coffee

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.101, Ballantine Books

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, Essence

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• I think escapism is really important.

  Jordana Brewster

  Thinking, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill.

  Todd Phillips

  Thrill, Vicarious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Other Worlds, Fiction, Fantasy

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Home, Men

  "On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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