Top 100 Dream Nightmare Quotes
#1. [ ... ] most of the environmental hype [regarding global warming] is really to help bring about Karl Marx's dream (nightmare) of a Communist world. [by reduction, and ultimately elimination of private property rights
Kent Hovind
#2. Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.
Gregory David Roberts
#3. Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who occasionally share a common experience.
Michael Moorcock
#4. ...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.
Criss Jami
#5. The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
Edward Abbey
#6. I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem
#7. To a dream, perhaps a nightmare was simply an unpleasant acquaintance rather than anything uncanny.
Maggie Stiefvater
#8. You don't get what you do for him. You're like his manic pixie dream girl or something." Jamie thought for a second. "Actually, more like his psychotic demon nightmare thing, but whatever. You get my point.
Michelle Hodkin
#9. Now, this was a combination that she wouldn't dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.
B. Barmanbek
#11. It can't all be dreams because a broken dream will kill you as surely as a nightmare will, and with a lot less mercy. At least the nightmares don't smile while they take you down.
Seanan McGuire
#12. Dreamers must dream on
as long as the nightmare wakes them up
to greet with a bucketful of reality
Munia Khan
#13. I had a dream about you last night ... Well I say dream I mean nightmare ... you were a Yankee fan.
Nicole McKay
#14. Foolish woman, will holding it secret in your heart make it any less true? If
you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered?
George R R Martin
#15. We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.
Erik Christian Haugaard
#16. A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare.
Habeeb Akande
#17. A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.
Gregory David Roberts
#19. Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
Anthony Daniels
#20. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares ...
Carl Sagan
#21. When our star shines, someone else's fades away; when our dream is fulfilled, someone else's turns into a nightmare!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#22. Nightmares are not dreams. A good dream does not leave the dreamer in darkness, confusion and terror. Start having dreams, not nightmares!
Michael Bassey Johnson
#23. Recognize the difference between a dream and a nightmare, and date the man from your dreams, not your nightmares.
Jenna Alatari
#24. From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
Randall Jarrell
#25. Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
Santosh Kalwar
#26. Pennywise: I'll kill you all! Ha-ha! I'll drive you crazy and then I'll kill you all! I'm every nightmare you ever had! I am your worst dream come true! I'm everything you ever were afraid of!
Stephen King
#27. In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.
Sharon Gless
#28. Her whole life had been a long and easy dream to lull her helplessly into this waking nightmare.
Stephen King
#29. I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'
Michael Keaton
#30. I have a nightmare about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown] killing each other. Not every month, but now and then. I also have a recurring dream about losing.
Alastair Campbell
#31. I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.
Ric Flair
#32. Some people are motivated by visualizing themselves reaching their dream. Some people are motivated by the nightmare of not reaching it. Do both.
Robert G. Allen
#33. A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.
Del Howison
#34. The strictly theoretical and so attractive dream of possible equality had been traded for the worst authoritarian nightmare in history when it was applied to reality, understood, with good reason (more, in this case), as the only criterion of truth.
Leonardo Padura
#35. My daughter wrote a book. She is a New York Times Bestselling Author. Fabulous. Couldn't be more proud. She also has no health insurance. A 401 K? Dream on! My daughter left her stable corporate job to be a writer without dental benefits or a savings account, a.k.a. my worst nightmare.
Kate Siegel
#36. Started as a nightmare but now seems like the sweetest dream." Her head tipped to the side and a small, confused smile played at her lips when she whispered, "How can that be?
Kristen Ashley
#37. She's a gorgeous nightmare and he's a wicked dream ...
A.L. Jackson
#38. Life, basically, is a nightmare until you learn to control the dream.
Rebecca Ore
#39. Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.
Jacob Bronowski
#40. My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
Cam Newton
#41. Under President Obama and Secretary Clinton, they're working hard to change the American dream into the European nightmare. They do celebrate more dependence on the government.
Bobby Jindal
#42. An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to.
Laurence J. Peter
#43. Only difference between a dream and a nightmare is how big your balls are, bitch. (The Fox)
Mark Millar
#44. The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.
Marlon James
#45. It is an awful knowledge. Even if what you are coming up out of is a nightmare, waking is hard. When you were deep inside the dream, all was decided for you. Out in the morning is something else altogether. Something you have to choose for yourself.
Anna Smaill
#46. The logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle states: "Existence equals nightmare." Unless life is a dream, nothing makes sense. For as a reality, it is a rank failure..
Thomas Ligotti
#48. Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#49. If I didn't mould my reality then I'd still be in the ghetto where people like me are supposed to stay. You have to dream your way out of the nightmare.
Will.i.am
#50. For the world of science and evolution is far more nameless and elusive and like a dream than the world of poetry and religion; since in the latter images and ideas remain themselves eternally, while it is the whole idea of evolution that identities melt into each other as they do in a nightmare.
G.K. Chesterton
#51. As jealousy entered, trust left ... and their dream of a relationship began to wither into a nightmare ... a nightmare in which love just wasn't enough.
Steve Maraboli
#52. In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.
Richard Jeni
#53. A dream without a fight is a nightmare.
Besa Kosova
#54. Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.
Nancy Reagan
#55. She was a dream that was seconds from becoming a nightmare, a present that was about to be taken back.
Karina Halle
#57. I'm your favorite nightmare and your worst dream all in one. I'm everything you shouldn't want. And you're everything I need.
Kenya Wright
#58. Vampires and humans; we are all monsters in our own way at the end of a dream, or a nightmare.
Cameron Jace
#59. Hillary Clinton, President Obama, they're trying to turn the American dream into the European nightmare. We need to rescue the country from socialism.
Bobby Jindal
#60. He called me his 'dream.' I guess now I've become his nightmare.
Richard Finney
#61. A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.
LeBron James
#62. I awoke you from your sleep because I saw that you were having a nightmare. And now you are cross and say to me: "What are we supposed to do now? Everything is still night!" You ingrates! You should go to sleep again and dream better.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Must have been some kind a nightmare."
"Yeah," I answer, my usual calm, vacant voice returning. "Can't wait to wake up.
K.A. Tucker
#64. Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare ... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism.
Arnaud Desplechin
#65. Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
Bryan Adams
#66. Nightmares appear many times before your dream.
J.R. Rim
#67. Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.
Langston Hughes
#68. The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
Victor LaValle
#69. A nightmare is the best kind of dream. The only one that brings happiness when it ends.
Joseph R. Lallo
#70. No I'm not a dream, I'm your worst nightmare
C.T. Todd
#71. I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.
Marlon Brando
#72. In a reality known as the garden of beautiful eden,
Adam is dreaming about his sinful children on earth.
He is struggling to wake up from a terrible nightmare.
Toba Beta
#73. She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.
Penelope Douglas
#74. I do dream every night but in the morning I regret.
M.F. Moonzajer
#75. I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
#76. Live like u've achieved it. Walk like you have somewhere to be. Speak as if it's yours. Exist as if ur life is meant to touch others. work towards ur dream and blot out the nightmare of others. Then receive what is offered because u have earned it. Y'all be easy!
Alicia Smith
#77. So you have it, you awaken from it and you can recall, in detail, what just happened, that's a nightmare. So it's very different from a dream where you generally don't wake up from it and you don't have this dysphoric emotion.
Shelby Harris
#79. It's happening: Lou Dobbs' dream come true and Silicon Valley's worst nightmare. We're already seeing the reverse brain drain as smart immigrants take their U.S. educations and experience building companies and creating technology back to their home countries.
Sarah Lacy
#80. I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver
#81. Never give up. If you have a dream - no.matter what that dream is, whether it be to become a great actress ir to open your very own sweet shop- never stop.dreaming it, because if you do, life becomes one long nightmare
Victoria Connelly
#82. In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
Zygmunt Bauman
#83. It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#84. She wanted so badly to believe him. She sat on the edge of her bed and closed her eyes. And she realized what had been happening to her over the past weeks. He had been turning - so gradually that she had scarcely noticed the transition - from her nightmare into her dream. Because
Mary Balogh
#85. Nightmare and dream both are not real, but I do always love my nightmare; because it offers me gratitude while the latter makes me disappointed.
M.F. Moonzajer
#86. This is nothing more than a dream. Or is it a
nightmare?
J.M. Darhower
#87. Her worst nightmare and her wettest dream.
Gail McHugh
#88. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' really lends itself to using new technologies. CGI would be a great way to exploit and embrace the dream sequences.
Robert Englund
#89. I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare
Tori Amos
#90. A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.
Blaise Cendrars
#91. One Man's Dream Is Another Man's Nightmare ... It's All About Your Prospective People!
Timothy Pina
#92. Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.
G.K. Chesterton
#93. We're not dreamers. We're awaking from a dream turning into a nightmare. We're not destroying anything. We're watching the system destroy itself.
Slavoj Zizek
#95. Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
Hetti Perkins
#96. For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
Bernie Sanders
#97. Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.
Jill Scott
#98. I dream of chaos and serenity. Some might call what I dream a nightmare, a madness of the mind. Me, I think of it as a foreshadowing of what's to come in my future, of what I hope to achieve one day.
Jessica Sorensen
#99. We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.
Steve Toltz
#100. Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime; theft of individual worth.
A.E. Samaan
