Top 100 Nightmare Quotes
#1. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
Lana Parrilla
#2. 90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.
Danny Dyer
#3. I feel bad for young people. The 20s are a nightmare also. The 20s are hard to do.
Joy Behar
#4. logistical nightmare during the state
Anonymous
#5. Thierry Henry, he was definitely the best. He was just too quick. Oh God, what a player he was. I was so relieved when he went to Barcelona. He used to have everything. You couldn't even kick him, he was big and strong, oh, Jesus, he was a nightmare
Jamie Carragher
#6. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.
John Grisham
#8. Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.
Will Rogers
#9. The triumph of the will recreates, as its Utopia, the world of early childhood, and that is a world of nightmare, impotence and fear, in which the child fantasises, out of its own powerlessness, an absolute supremacy.
Angela Carter
#10. Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.
Morris West
#11. It was becoming a nightmare. Ronan could hear the night horrors coming, in love with his blood and his sadness.
Maggie Stiefvater
#12. The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
Ian Thorpe
#13. I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it - started throwing my hands in the air, drinking red wine and flying off the handle.
John Kirwan
#14. We may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. Because
Bill Bryson
#15. One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.
Judd Apatow
#16. Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare.
Shelby Harris
#17. 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
#18. Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare")
Cornell Woolrich
#19. She had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]
James Carroll
#20. I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine
#21. Look guys, I am your worst nightmare. I'm a woman with a badge, a gun, and PMS. Are you really sure you want to piss me off any more tonight?
K.V. McMillan
#22. 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
#23. ...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
#24. They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl ... an aria of fear made audible.
The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.
Angela Carter
#25. It was like finding Attila the Hun at a yoga class. Like finding Darth Vader playing ultimate Frisbee in the park. Like finding Megatron volunteering at a children's hospital. Like finding Nightmare Moon having a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
Cory Doctorow
#26. It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.
Harriet Brown
#27. The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
Edward Abbey
#28. Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.
Ellen Hopkins
#29. The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.
George Soros
#30. Saddam Hussein was a nightmare for the Iraqi people, and his execution marks the end of an era when violence against innocent men, women and children was a means to wealth and power.
Mike Pence
#31. Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.
Sherry Stringfield
#32. When your dreams turn into a nightmare, it's time to wake up.
Rachelle Ayala
#33. I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem
#34. I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up.IT sees me. IT smiles and winks. Good thing my lips are stitched together or I'd throw up.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#35. Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.
Israel Shamir
#36. I've been here before, dreaming myself
backwards, among grappling hooks of light.
True to the seasons, I've lived every word
spoken. Did I walk into someone's nightmare?
Yusef Komunyakaa
#37. To a dream, perhaps a nightmare was simply an unpleasant acquaintance rather than anything uncanny.
Maggie Stiefvater
#38. Every direction I could see to go was just a different nightmare.
Chuck Palahniuk
#39. We're at war.
On the verge of an apocalypse filled with monsters and torture in a nightmare world.
And I'm standing here, a moonstruck teenager pining for an enemy soldier. What am I, crazy?
This time, I'm the first to turn away.
Susan Ee
#40. I think I killed a girl who looked like this once.
Kendare Blake
#41. What happened in the nightmare was something no one else ever needed to know. Conor
Patrick Ness
#42. The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.
Don DeLillo
#43. It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that's already come true.
Beth Revis
#44. I will move on, so help me. I would find and rescue women who suffered abuse and hardship. I would become a trafficker's worst nightmare. Even though you deny him, you're becoming him.
Pepper Winters
#45. Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.
Audre Lorde
#46. Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.
Michael Jeter
#47. Older homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.
Patricia Arquette
#48. Once in the shower, I let the water run over my face, keeping my eyes closed. The delicate outlines of Abby's features were burned behind my eyelids. It wasn't the first time; I saw her every time my eyes closed. Now that she was gone, it was like being stuck in a nightmare.
Jamie McGuire
#49. 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
#51. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.
Vladimir Sorokin
#52. Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.
Paul David Washer
#53. Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#54. People like us are not victims. We're someone's nightmare.
Laura Thalassa
#55. A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.
Jerry Hall
#56. Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
Jeff Goodell
#57. It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus.
Fred Schneider
#58. Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
Sam Childers
#59. If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.
Quentin Dupieux
#60. Now, this was a combination that she wouldn't dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.
B. Barmanbek
#61. My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' ... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984.
Adam Green
#62. Global warming - at least the modern nightmare vision - is a myth. I am sure of it and so are a growing number of scientists. But what is really worrying is that the world's politicians and policy makers are not.
David Bellamy
#63. And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but when people put a pretty bow on scary things instead of saying, 'This is a nightmare. I hate everything. I'm going to go hide in the garage.'
Anne Lamott
#64. to all those who slept through the nightmare till it ended, you will remember your nightmares and it will be easier to confront them when they come again for you.
Sherif Mekdam
#65. There is no reason for any of this if we don't survive."
Vince reached out and ran a hand through her long hair. "Ah, love. That's where you're wrong. As long as we do what we're meant to do, it doesn't really matter if we survive or not.
Erin Kellison
#66. He cares for you, you know." Violetta turns her head briefly in the direction of the closed doors. "Magiano. I've seen him standing guard outside your door, making sure you aren't having another nightmare or an illusion.
Marie Lu
#67. I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that.
Thomas Sangster
#68. In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.
Scott Sigler
#70. I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.
Henny Youngman
#71. Getting married was a ball. Being married was ... a nightmare.
Kid Rock
#72. Should Never,Ever have got involved with Men again. Had completely forgotten the nightmare of 'Why hasn't he called
Helen Fielding
#74. The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
Norman Mailer
#75. My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like ... ' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand
#76. I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.
Jared Padalecki
#77. I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me.
Nas
#78. He did not say that the only true nightmare was not being able to do something and that this, at least, was something.
Maggie Stiefvater
#79. I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.
George Wald
#80. I think that comedy is a good defense for a child. Because you know childhood is a nightmare as it is. And so why not use comedy and being funny as a defense to get through your life as opposed to drugs, alcohol and good looks? Because those things are dangerous when your young.
Joy Behar
#81. Welcome to my nightmare," Elvira muttered. "Though you got yourself a biker who fills his Levi's so well he should be in Harley Davidson ads and has an off-the-charts ability to give pleasure so you can't really understand my pain.
Kristen Ashley
#82. We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
Terence McKenna
#83. For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#84. My boobs are, like, huge, my whole life, buying a bra was a nightmare. What I used to do when I moved to L.A., I found places like Frederick's of Hollywood that make bras for [strippers].
Sofia Vergara
#85. When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.
Agatha Christie
#86. Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If I have a choice to stand in line to get x-rayed, or see scenery, I'll take scenery.
Steve Kimock
#87. I acknowledge that I could never convey just what was so dreadful about this tableau of a bright, utterly silent room full of men immersed in work. It was the type of nightmare whose terror is less about what you see than about the feeling you have in your chest and stomach about what you're seeing.
David Foster Wallace
#88. 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
#89. Dreamers must dream on
as long as the nightmare wakes them up
to greet with a bucketful of reality
Munia Khan
#90. Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.
Nathan Englander
#91. All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac
#92. That time in Seattle - during the lawsuit - was a fucking nightmare. I came out of it dead broke, without a house, without anything except a girlfriend and a knowledge of UNIX." "Well, that's something," Avi says. "Normally those two are mutually exclusive.
Neal Stephenson
#93. The day will come when we strike you down," she's saying. "Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares."
I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. "I am the nightmare.
Marie Lu
#94. The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them.
Leigh Bardugo
#95. I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper ... it's a disaster.
Adrian Tomine
#96. Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
Benicio Del Toro
#97. To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
Dick Cavett
#98. The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay
#99. That's all it takes, you see
a moment of kindness. Someone who is sweet and understanding, who seems to be sent there like an angel on the road to get you through the nightmare.
Edith Hahn Beer
#100. I had a dream about you last night ... Well I say dream I mean nightmare ... you were a Yankee fan.
Nicole McKay
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