Emma Stone Quotes

Life is never quite like the brochure.

Reality has a way of intruding upon illusion.

Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man.

The reality of our lives is never like what you see in those romantic comedies or dramas. Things don't always end good. Things don't usually end good.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

Reality is never a golden age.

Thinking that everything is going to come together in a perfect way is not necessarily the way it's going to happen.

No," says Ariana. "It was a dream. Reality got in the way, that's all.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

The fall from your dream into reality is especially hard when you've seen that you can fly.

You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

What brings enlightenment is experience, in the sad sense of this word--the pressure of hard facts and unintelligible troubles, making a man rub his eyes in his waking dream, and put two and two together. Enlightenment is cold water.

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul