Top 185 Escapism Quotes & Sayings

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

My books are just pure escapism for kids.

Writing is my escapism.

Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything.

We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it was everything. And then it became not cool to be conscious; it became cool to just hang out. Escapism rap became the norm. And, when I say "escapism rap", I mean getting high, get your cars, get your money, get your jewelry, go to the club, have your women, and it just became all about escaping your reality and not making your reality better on a real tip; not just on the have fun tip.

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.

The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

I sell escapism.

I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

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.

But to me, 'Worlds' is meant as kind of an appreciation of fiction and stories and escapism and fantasy.

I lived in those old movie houses as a kid. I just loved them. What total escapism for someone.

I think people are interested in celebrities because it's easy, disposable entertainment and it's fun escapism.

I think escapism is really important.

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

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.

Music can be a source of escapism.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too.

The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were gathered around watching soap operas. That was the escapism, the show that was giving you something you couldn't have. Now, you go into any sorority house, there are 50 to 100 girls piled in watching The Bachelor. We are the modern-day soap opera.

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.

Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

'Strictly' is feel-good escapism.

Acting has always been such escapism for me.

Born And Bred' is pure escapism, and where we film is one of the most beautiful places in the country.

Without its roots in reality, I don't think escapism can survive.

That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

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

For me, makeup will always be about glamour, fantasy, and escapism!

I didn't like school at all. I was bullied and didn't have a good time. Boxing was my escapism, and the ring was where I felt best.

Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.

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

No one sets out to write escapism as a film's subject matter unless, maybe, you are making a fantasy flick.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

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.

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.

I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in. It's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's TV shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you.

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

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

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.

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

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

People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

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

Escapism is survival to me.

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.