#escapism

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#after #all day #audience #been #certain

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#after #all day #audience #certain #certain feeling

People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful! ↗

— Margaret Forster

#escapism #nasty #people #something #talk

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#escapism #idea #life #my life #sum

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 Troost

#escapism #happiness #paradise #travel #wanderlust

I sell escapism. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#i #sell

Music is escapism, it's entertainment. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#escapism #music

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#life

I want to glide in a world of beauty,’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things. ↗

— James Lusarde

#erotic-romance #erotica #escapism #love #luxury

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#fiction #on-fiction #life