Escape Reality Quotes

People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back.

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to find reason for hope, to find strength. While a bad book leaves readers with a sense of hopelessness and despair, a good novel, through stories of values realized, of wrongs righted, can bring to readers a connection to the wonder of life. A good novel shows how life can and ought to be lived. It not only entertains but energizes and uplifts readers.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.

I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.