35 quotes found
“[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving w...”
“We 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, deba...”
“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 b...”
“So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.”
“If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.”
“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”
“Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "es...”
“A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.”
“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 ...”
“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 ...”
“There is no time to escape reality.”
“In the language of the day it is customary to describe a certain sort of book as escapist literature. As I understand it, the adjective implies, a little condescendingly, that the life therein depi...”
“Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction.”
“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when ...”
“Relatable escapism can only be achieved using facets of the real world.”
“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 alw...”
“Whenever I come across someone speaking negatively about escapism or looking down on those who seek a temporary escape from this world, I can't help but look at them as absolute fools. To deny some...”
“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”
“We both knew no bounds to our escapism.”
“To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?”
