Top 80 Nightmare And Dream Quotes
#1. 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
#2. We're not memories, Katherine, we're dreams. All of us. Each part of us a dream, a nightmare of blood and vomit and boredom and fear. And when we wake up - we die." When
Mark Lawrence
#3. Surely I must be a princess in an enchanted sleep. Any day now, this dream-no, nightmare would end, and I'd get my prince and happy ending.
Richelle Mead
#4. But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#5. Because, he's Jameson Kane. He's like my worst nightmare and my biggest dream, all rolled in to one.
Stylo Fantome
#6. My dreams were welcome; they were what felt real to me, and to wake in a world where Abby was not mine was the dream, the true nightmare.
Ashlan Thomas
#7. For millions, the retirement dream is in reality an economic nightmare. For millions, growing old today means growing poor, being sick, living in substandard housing, and having to scrimp merely to subsist.
Sylvia Porter
#8. In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke.
Andrew Abrahams
#9. Vision with action and commitment can change the world, but without action it's just a dream, and without commitment it's a nightmare.
Farshad Asl
#10. If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.
Betsy Sholl
#11. For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.
Mary Webb
#12. [ ... ] 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
#13. To all the kids who looked up to me, I'm truly sorry for letting you down but I hope it's helped you learn that one bad decision can turn your dream into a nightmare, there is no excuse for domestic violence and I apologize for the horrible mistake I made.
Ray Rice
#14. When you wake up from a nightmare, the reality comforts you. When you wake up from the best dream ever, reality is a burden, a slap-in-the-face reminder that you could feel this, you could have this, but you don't and you won't.
Karina Halle
#15. Maldonado's face was ghastly. 'That' she said, pointing below the bed where the cat lurked, 'and that' - pointing to what lay on the floor - 'prove it was no dream. Do dreams leave marks behind them?' ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")
Cornell Woolrich
#16. Here lay the gateway between worlds, the divide between reality and fantasy. A dream or, depending on who waited, a nightmare.
Danielle L. Jensen
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
Hetti Perkins
#21. 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
#22. You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare.
Philip Roth
#23. Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
John C. Maxwell
#24. Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?
Jill Scott
#25. By the time she yanked on her old jeans and a battered plaid flannel shirt, she felt almost normal. Calm, as she plugged in the coffee pot. But the nightmare was still very much on her mind, because it wasn't a dream ...
It was a memory.
Dani Harper
#26. We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that the whole of life is a dream, and the moon and stars bits of nightmare.
Arthur Machen
#27. I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!
Swami Vivekananda
#28. I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
Anthony Hopkins
#29. The dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death.
Elena Ferrante
#30. Physically, he was my dream and in every other way, my nightmare.
Penelope Ward
#31. Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares ...
Doris Lessing
#32. I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare
Tori Amos
#33. Our gymnasium was remarkable and had more stuff in it than one could dream up in a nightmare. Furthermore, every boy had to use every piece of it during gymnasium class.
Preston Sturges
#34. The only way to stop a nightmare is to open your eyes, if perchance you realize you were dreaming
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#35. A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.
Jenna Alatari
#36. All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live.
Keanu Reeves
#37. The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare."~Unbreakable Heart
Kimberly Kinrade
#38. I am a nightmare to most, and a dream for the broken; who am I?' and the answer to that is death." "Correct.
Roshani Chokshi
#39. Surrealism is not a movement. It is a latent state of mind perceivable through the powers of dream and nightmare.
Salvador Dali
#40. Dream of me, Maddy. See me as I want to be; not the nightmare who torments you, but the devoted and mystified man who worships at your feet.
M.S. Willis
#41. To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment.
Isaac Asimov
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. She's a gorgeous nightmare and he's a wicked dream ...
A.L. Jackson
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.
Ric Flair
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Her whole life had been a long and easy dream to lull her helplessly into this waking nightmare.
Stephen King
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. Asia is an entertainment, Europe is a dream, America is an imprisonment and Rest is a nightmare.
Santosh Kalwar
#54. 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
#55. Recognize the difference between a dream and a nightmare, and date the man from your dreams, not your nightmares.
Jenna Alatari
#56. 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
#57. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares ...
Carl Sagan
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. ...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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Her worst nightmare and her wettest dream.
Gail McHugh
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.
Penelope Douglas
#72. '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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. Vampires and humans; we are all monsters in our own way at the end of a dream, or a nightmare.
Cameron Jace
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. Only difference between a dream and a nightmare is how big your balls are, bitch. (The Fox)
Mark Millar
