Escapism Quotes

“The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.”

“I find it very difficult to live in the present. It's such a mess.”

“I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the real world too much.”

“Music should be an escape.”

“In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.”

“I'm not interested in real life. I'm interested in how to forget it.”

“I want to run away from myself.”

“The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, away to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was not that like the opportunity afforded by drink?”

“What a life! The real life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”

“I wish I had a river I could skate away on.”

“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”

“Miniver coughed, and called it fate, And kept on drinking.”

“I write because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me.”

“The real world is something I'm not that interested in. I'm more interested in the world I can create.”

“Fantasy is a place where you can be safe from the world, but it's not a place to live.”

“Real life is boring. That's why we have cartoons.”

“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory.”

“The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today.”

“To me, 'G.I. Joe' is about having a great time, it's about escapism.”

“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”