Escape Reality Quotes

I'm always reading. I've loved reading since I was young, and I've always loved sinking my teeth into a different world, especially one that you begin to create in your head.

And you love to read, you love to escape, right?

I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.

And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

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.

But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.

I just want to go to Disneyland. I need that a lot, to just let everything go, go on some roller coasters and have fun.

The popularity of fantasy surpassing science fiction and the popularity of apocalyptic fiction, particularly for young adults, may indicate a desire to escape a more difficult and confusing reality, even in astrophysics and particle physics.

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

I feel as if I go to Africa, I may never come back. I'm just going to live with the animals and adopt an elephant, and it's going to be my friend.

I think music is like little films, and it's nice to listen to music and really escape.

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

Don't we want to escape our real world and go into something larger than that, simpler than that, more beautiful or darker?

It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.

I put myself into another world and another identity, and I design not for how my life is but for how my imaginary life is.

People pay all that money to sit in a chair in the theater mainly because it is a respectable way to see and experience things they cannot see and experience in their own lives.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

In many cases, mathematics is an escape from reality. The mathematician finds his own monastic niche and happiness in pursuits that are disconnected from external affairs. Some practice it as if using a drug.

Ultimately, the idea of being able to escape and lose myself in a new world every time I go to 'work' was too appealing to ignore.

For me, part of the fascination with making animation is you go to a place; it's a complete immersion in someone else's fantasy.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.