Top 100 Nightmare Quotes
#1. The idea that an afterlife had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the finality of death was no more plausible than the idea that the finality of death had been invented to reassure people who couldn't face the nightmare of endless experience.
Edward St. Aubyn
#3. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
Karl Marx
#4. The last thing I wanted was to be another star player in their nightmare.
Adele Levine
#5. We must be quite the sight. Raffe in his red mask with his demon wings spread out in all their scythe-edged glory. A scrawny teenage Daughter of Man brandishing an archangel sword. And a little girl stitched-up to look and behave like a nightmare who is clutching a pair of angel wings.
Susan Ee
#6. With the change of the seasons, God reminds us that darkness always ends. Light always exists and will always return when missing. There is no night that doesn't end. No nightmare from which you cannot awaken. No hurt that cannot heal.
Sharon Bayliss
#7. My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.
David Copperfield
#8. I think all mothers are a nightmare - i don't think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind.
Jennifer Lawrence
#9. 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
#11. 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!
Dave Grohl
#12. I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.
Kenneth Lay
#14. Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.
Nikolai Berdyaev
#15. Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:
Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:
Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,
And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
W.S. Gilbert
#16. For the one that loved, the nightmare, it was simple. It never had been, but was all in their mind.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#17. In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare.
Charlene Li
#18. You're going to listen to me; and if you get ugly like you said, I'll become your worst nightmare.'
'Too late, buttercup. You became my worst nightmare years ago
Rachel Gibson
#19. Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
Max Beerbohm
#20. What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
#21. Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King.
Deyth Banger
#22. It was as if every single nightmare I've ever had throughout my entire life became reality in that single instant.
Colleen Hoover
#23. To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.
Byron Katie
#24. A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.
Jay Leno
#25. I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don't see any American dream--I see an American nightmare.
Malcolm X
#26. Sometimes our Biggest Nightmare turns out to be our Biggest Gift. And it all comes down to our attitude. Life will throw us curve balls and disappointments, even heartbreak. But ultimately we can choose if we're going to be Bitter or Better for the experience.
Kathryn Orford
#27. As darkness descended, fear continued hammering on the cracks of her rational mind. Even the critters had decided to ratchet up the volume. Great. A creepy nature soundtrack for my own personal nightmare. How about some Tomb Raider music, people!
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#28. Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment.
John Fowles
#29. The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
Tommy Lee Jones
#30. I did Wall Street, and then everything that happened with An Education took me up until March. I didn't want to work during that because there was just so much stuff. I didn't realize you had to go to so many parties. It was a nightmare! I had to go to all these parties! The glamour!
Carey Mulligan
#31. A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
Jim Sorensen
#32. History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
#33. I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.
Hany Abu-Assad
#34. He was a mortal man with more flaws than bones, shackled to a fantasy of his own nightmare making.
V. Theia
#35. If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.
Michael Morpurgo
#36. I think being a guest star on an ongoing TV show can be a nightmare, and I've done it a lot. You're walking into this family who's very comfortable where they are, and you have to jump on the train and be artificially comfortable. That's a very hard thing to do.
Janel Moloney
#37. Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
William Butler Yeats
#39. If you have something to hide, I'm your worst nightmare. I'm a living, breathing, and walking lie detector. I can smell you down to the type of soap you use, your morning ritual, and the last time you took a hand and stroked your favorite body part. Everything leaves behind a scent ... Everything.
Ashley Jeffery
#40. I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
Francesca Annis
#41. Having you wrapped around me all night, feeling you coming around my fingers, now wrapped in a towel and knowing what's under that shit and not being able to do a damn thing about it is my worst fucking nightmare.
Aurora Rose Reynolds
#42. You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!
Nicholas D'Agosto
#43. To go to sleep one night with your child nestled inside you and wake up the next with no evidence your child ever existed is like waking up in a nightmare that never ends.
Cassia Leo
#44. Isn't it interesting how the sounds are the same for an awful nightmare and great sex?
Rue McClanahan
#45. His own personal siren nightmare. What else could it be when his body only sparked alive when it was her.
She made his lungs work, his heart beat.
It was a goddamn disease is what it was.
V. Theia
#46. It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")
Cornell Woolrich
#47. To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
Adrian Tomine
#48. My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
Dane Cook
#49. The summer had been like a dream, some parts of it a nightmare, but overall a good dream. Magic.
Elizabeth Kirke
#50. I miss the days when I could wake up from a nightmare and call out, and someone would hold me close, make me feel warm and safe.
Delilah S. Dawson
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.
Tim Burton
#54. She's clutching the worn leather journal. It's ironic how it now seems like a safety blanket for her, yet to him, it represents a tragic nightmare.
Ella Frank
#55. If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about
1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.
Bryan Caplan
#56. School busses ... Won't even give us a chance to be late for school ... Never be late again in all our lives. Think of that nightmare,Doug, just think it all over.
Ray Bradbury
#57. A nightmare might force you awakened.
The tough life might force you awakened.
Toba Beta
#58. This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.
Elizabeth Warren
#59. Sleeping is much safer than the nightmare I'm living.
When I sleep I feel nothing and I do nothing and I see nothing and nothing matters and no one cares. There's no one to hurt or disappoint or notice when I'm low and I don't need to face anyone not anyone in the world or not even myself.
Shannon Mullen
#60. I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.
Madeleine Roux
#61. College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow
#62. Her concentration was gone, and last night she had had a nightmare about discovering a formalism that let her translate arbitrary concepts into mathematical expressions: then she had proven that life and death were equivalent.
Ted Chiang
#63. This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world
Don DeLillo
#64. He was her worst nightmare and fondest wish all wrapped up in a damn Boy Scout.
Taryn Elliott
#65. The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
Oliver Stone
#66. Tattoo your name across my heart, so it will remain / not even death could make us part / what kind is it / It could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare / either way I don't want to wake up from you.
Beyonce Knowles
#67. I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
Donald Freed
#68. Ah God, what has man done to man? What have the leaders of men been doing to their fellow men? They have reduced them to less than humanness; and now there can be no fellowship any more! It is just a nightmare.
D.H. Lawrence
#69. 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
#70. To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
Henry Ward Beecher
#71. Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.
Rachel Jackson
#72. the ghetto should never come with a photo. The Third World slum is a nightmare that defies beliefs or facts, even the ones staring right at you. A vision of hell that twists and turns on itself and grooves to its own soundtrack.
Marlon James
#73. Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.
Terry Pratchett
#74. In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.
Anne Perry
#75. No matter how much we lie to ourselves about what a good person we are inside, sooner or later, we are all someone else's nightmare. Let us hope, for all our sakes, that history judges us with far kinder labels than what we've used to judge each other.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#76. 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
#77. I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
John Crowley
#78. I am coming
for all the monsters that ever touched him,
I am coming
for all the ones who twisted his stars into shadows,
They turned him into a nightmare,
so I'm going to be theirs...
and they'll never wake up
Anonymous
#79. I'd just met a talking garden gnome and the nightmare version of My Little Pony.
Nicole Peeler
#80. In 1984, when 'Nightmare on Elm Street' came out, not only was I twelve and couldn't get into an R movie, but I lived twenty miles from a theater. So my first experience of it was on VHS.
Stephen Graham Jones
#81. Because, he's Jameson Kane. He's like my worst nightmare and my biggest dream, all rolled in to one.
Stylo Fantome
#82. When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland - I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren't too conservative.
April Gornik
#83. College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski
#84. It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.
Elizabeth Lowell
#85. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our constitution works.
Gerald R. Ford
#86. My favorite film score is the one Thomas Bangalter created for 'Irreversible.' The soundtrack absolutely defines the daymare-into-nightmare feeling you get from the film.
Richard Phillips
#87. The cloud computing model may be a wonderful system when it works, but it's a nightmare when it fails. And the more people who come to depend upon it, the bigger the nightmare.
Jamais Cascio
#88. It's important to balance the drudgery with inspiration. It's a nightmare if you are just existing in the present project - you don't feel a sense of your own growth.
Peter Wolf
#89. I'm Suze Simon," I said. "And you thought being dead was bad? Buddy, your eternal nightmare's only just begun.
Meg Cabot
#90. In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.
Laura Owens
#91. My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.
Roselyne Bosch
#93. Until what? Foolish woman, will holding it secret in our 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? Oh, if only the gods would be so good.
George R R Martin
#94. The Veretian palace, afroth with ornament, paid only lip service to defence. The parapets were purposeless curving decorative spires. The slippery domes that he skirted would be a nightmare in an attack, hiding one part of the roof from the other.
C.S. Pacat
#96. You got a name?"
"Uhad Ul-badir Taruk Ultani," the wizard said with a small dip of his chin.
Jackal blinked. "That name is a fucking nightmare. I'm going to call you Crafty.
Jonathan French
#97. 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
#98. Ah, Proph." Tom paused. "You did have a nightmare last night."
"And here I thought maybe I dreamed it," Prophet muttered sarcastically.
S.E. Jakes
#99. I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.
Amy Klobuchar
#100. Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.
Meek Mill
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