escapism

n.
The tendency to escape from daily reality or routine by indulging in daydreaming, fantasy, or entertainment.

n

Definition: fantasy
Antonyms: realism

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Quotes:

"There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

"What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself." - Horace

"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

"Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort." - Jean Cocteau

"Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads." - Andre Breton

"The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin; out of any businessman's life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine." - William Bolitho

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - virkelighedsflugt

Nederlands (Dutch)
het vluchten voor de realiteit

Français (French)
n. - évasion de la réalité, philosophie de la fuite

Deutsch (German)
n. - Realitätsflucht

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - τάση φυγής από την πραγματικότητα

Italiano (Italian)
evasione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - escapismo (m) (Psicol.)

Русский (Russian)
бегство от действительности

Español (Spanish)
n. - evasión, escapismo

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - verklighetsflykt, eskapism

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
逃避现实, 空想, 逃避主义

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 逃避現實, 空想, 逃避主義

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 현실 도피

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 現実逃避

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) التهرب من الواقع, التهربيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מגמה בספרות להסיח דעת מהמציאות ולברוח ממנה, ערקנות, אסקפיזם‬

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