Escapism

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

Julio Cortázar

Describing current human mindsets reflecting our ignorance and cowardice and non action-oriented mentality:'I'm going to do nothing but escapist drugs...

Mark Passio

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

Steve Almond

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought...

Patti Smith

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be whe...

Rebecca Mead