#escapism

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, debased by them. (pg. 43, "The Unsettling of America") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#product #work #art

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#escape #escapism #human-nature #theatre #art

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#escapism #life #reading #life

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

#escapism #overload #life

People love escapism and there should be a place for it. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#love

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

— Margaret Forster

#escapism #nasty #people #something #talk

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#fashion #form #imprisonment #should

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

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#am #costume #doing #end #end product

Music is escapism, it's entertainment. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#escapism #music