Ludwig Goransson Quotes

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.

I'm in my dream world.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

Storytelling, mythology and film provide a lot of hope but, on the flip side, can also create delusion.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.