Quotes about Escapism
I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.
- Richard O'Brien
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.
- DH Lawrence
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
- Virginia Woolf
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
- Jack Kerouac
I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
- Victor Hugo
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
- LM Montgomery
You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
- Gabrielle Union
It occurred to me then that for the first time in as long as I could remember, I had absolutely no desire to log back into the OASIS.
- Ernest Cline
Ray seemed to subsist primarily on a diet of high-fructose junk food and old videogames.
- Ernest Cline
I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
- Ernest Cline
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Escapism seems to be the order of the day … Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of living will be blurred … We can't escape from God.
- Billy Graham