Blaise Pascal Quotes

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

Our society's need for escapism has always interested me.

I think escapism is really important.

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.

I don't want to go too deep, but football and 'Dragon Ball Z' were the two things that, when I was going through a hard time when I was younger, kind of gave me an escape.

Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

[On lightweight movies:] Fun movies. They were never meant to cure cancer, only to take away the mind.

Because one of the properties of music is to entertain and to, I don't mean this lightly, distract us from the things that pull us down. Music should be not only a source for political ideas but also a source of hope.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

That's what I like about watching a movie: you enter an imagined world that's more interesting, more engaging than your own. Or less painful than your own.

After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

And smiles to go before I weep, And Smiles to go before I weep.

Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.