Vicarious Living Quotes

In our world, we have this huge focus on vicarious living - politicians, movie stars, athletes, coaches, all these people. What our research has shown very clearly is that people who are really happier and have more meaningful lives are people that focus on living their own lives.

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.

So many of our enormous emotional crises are lived through the media. They're lived through movies; they're lived through what we watch on television - they're not actual events in our life.

Drug dealers live vicariously through me

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.

I'm a big game show fan. When you're a poor person, you watch game shows. I don't think people realize that. Maybe everybody watches game shows, but when you're poor, you live vicariously through those people.

His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

I was born in Bayonne, New Jersey. I grew up in the projects. I never went anywhere. But I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.

We've become accustomed to repurposing and living vicariously through other people's work instead of going out and making our own.

I live vicariously through my songs.

You live vicariously through your characters.

Luckily my own life is uncomplicated, which lets me really enjoy other people's complicated messes!

I've got to watch myself these days. It's too exciting watching anyone else.

I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It’s greed, plain and simple. When my characters join the circus, I’m joining the circus. Although I’m happily married, I spent a great deal of time mentally living with incompatible husbands.

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.

Oh, I'll live Ender's life, too. It's so much more interesting than my own." ~Val

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

To bear and rear the majestic race to which they can never fully belong! To live vicariously forever, through their sons, the daughters being just another vicarious link! What a supreme and magnificent martyrdom!

Vicarious living is only slightly less impossible than vicarious eating.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.