Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Ruth RendellTag: life reading books escapism
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
Shirley JacksonTag: reality first-sentence opening-lines sanity escapism escape
Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.
Alberto Manguel[M]ischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
George BorrowOh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.
Orson Scott CardTag: on-fiction fiction escapism
We left behind the other kids; their path-working, drinking, and being grown up- and rejected all that made them grumpy, uncreative and lifeless. We dumpstered, squatted, and shoplifted our lives back. Everything fell into place when we decided our lives were meant to be lived. Life serves the risk taker...
CrimethInc.Tag: life inspirational happiness escapism
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
Laura MillerTag: reading books reality children fantasy escapism
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 TroostTag: happiness contentment travel paradise escapism wanderlust
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit sleep firmly, willing it, wielding it, pushing away dreams, refusing, refusing. Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. [...] It is afternoon, it is night, it is morning. Everything is reduced to this bed, this endless slumber that makes the days into one day, makes time stop, stretches and compacts time until it is meaningless.
Audrey NiffeneggerWe have made it our overriding ambition to escape work, and as a consequence have debased work until it is only fit to escape from. We have debased the products of work and have been, in turn, debased by them.
(pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America")
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