Escapism Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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

  People, Giving, Might

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• The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hate, People, Jailer

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

  Ella Maillart

  Ideas, Literature

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• I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, Men, Class

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Lena Dunham

  Reality, Form

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will be what we make it. And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now, and there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks, they will there find recorded in black and white, or color, evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Black And White, Reality, Color

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• 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

  Moving, Home, Years

  J. Maarten Troost (2006). “Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu”, p.229, Broadway Books

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• Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

  Terry Pratchett

  Escaping, Doors, Skills

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• 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

  Heart, People, Giving

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