...When people lose their way and lack a real purpose for living they often fall back on certain forms of escapism as a form of self-soothing...
John GeddesTag: purpose escapism lost-way self-soothing
I steel myself to ignore his taunts and his coarse language. I no longer care what he says or does. It doesn't matter anymore. I am detached, contained in my own private world where he cannot reach me. It is my last refuge.
Alison WeirTag: escapism
Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
J.R.R. TolkienTag: escapism
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.
H.P. LovecraftTag: fantasy wonder fiction lovecraft escapism weird-fiction
i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.
Khaled HosseiniTag: sadness escapism giving-up
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 GaimanMoreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.
Leigh M. LaneTag: reading dystopia escapism
Lies Bücher. So einfach ist das. Ein Buch ist die einzige wirkliche Flucht aus dieser gefallenen Welt.
Außer dem Tod.
Tag: escapism
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Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: religion drugs prayer alcohol escapism homeless nonbeliever believer infedel intoxicants
I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in.
So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.
Tag: reading books escapism escape
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