Top 100 Quotes About A Nightmare
#1. I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.
John Crowley
#2. I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.
Robert Reich
#3. A nightmare, a memory. A thing can be both.
I stare up at the ceiling. White, white, white. The emptiness of it aches.
Emery Lord
#4. Life without Ethan was something worse than a nightmare.
It was real.
So real that I refused to believe it.
Kami Garcia
#5. I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'
Anthony LaPaglia
#6. Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.
Thomas Ligotti
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. The conversations had a nightmare flatness, talking dice spilled in the tube metal chairs, human aggregates disintegrating in cosmic insanity, random events in a dying universe.
William S. Burroughs
#10. For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.
Bernie Sanders
#11. Immortality ain;t nothing but a nightmare. Life's valuable because it's short. We gotta do our best with the time we got.
Gosho Aoyama
#12. Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.
Jill Scott
#13. When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#14. Urbanism is the most advanced, concrete fulfillment of a nightmare. Littre defines nightmare as 'a state that ends when one awakens with a start after extreme anxiety.' But a start against whom? Who has stuffed us to the point of somnolence?
Tom McDonough
#15. I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
Tom Glavine
#16. 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
#17. He (Tesla) was 84, and he died in a hotel, completely broke and alone. In love with a pigeon. This is a nightmare. I'm in hell. This is hell. I'm talking about Tesla in my puke. Tesla was the electric Jesus. I can't breathe.
Duncan Trussell
#18. 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
#19. Ron: [mimicking Hermione] "It's Levi-OOOOH-sa not LevioSAR." She's a nightmare, honestly. It's no wonder she hasn't got any friends!
J.K. Rowling
#20. When you are trapped in a nightmare, your motivation to awaken will be so much greater than that of someone caught up in a relatively pleasant dream.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. Who are you Jared? The man who wants to fuck me and own me, or the man who held me when I had a nightmare?
Mercy Cortez
#22. He felt that his life was about to turn around, but Burt had no way of knowing that his fairy tale would eventually turn into a nightmare.
Jillian Cornell
#23. Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness.
Hannah Kent
#24. I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.
Noel Fielding
#25. When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.
Jonas Armstrong
#26. He's a nightmare," she said.
"I can be, too." Rook answered, his red eyes glowing. "Just try me.
Erin Kellison
#27. Frye's influence on me lasted twenty years but came to an abrupt halt on my thirty-seventh birthday, July 11, 1967, when I awakened from a nightmare and then passed the entire day in composing a dithyramb, The Covering Cherub; or, Poetic Influence.
Harold Bloom
#28. Here lay the gateway between worlds, the divide between reality and fantasy. A dream or, depending on who waited, a nightmare.
Danielle L. Jensen
#29. I have made mistakes in the past and been in movies that really weren't good, and that I needed the money at the time, or something
and the money wasn't even that great. But I needed it, and ... they come back on television, those movies ... to haunt you. And it's a nightmare!
Lauren Bacall
#30. You must first realize that you are in a dream. Then you must realize that your current dream is a nightmare.
Frederick Lenz
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.
Megan Fox
#34. Since Jeannie is a big believer in attachment parenting and I'm a spineless coward, we have instituted an open-door policy, meaning if one of our kids has a nightmare, they are welcome to come in our room and pee in our bed. Luckily this only happens every night.
Jim Gaffigan
#35. The realization came to her slowly, as if through a thick haze - as if the hands belonged to someone else, and the blood was part of a nightmare. But they were her hands, and the blood was real.
Kass Morgan
#36. This can't be real. It can't be. It's a nightmare. I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare. I mustn't think of it now, or I'll begin screaming in front of all these people. I can't think of it now. I'll think later, when I can stand it - when I can't see his eyes.
Margaret Mitchell
#37. It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.
Kristin Cashore
#38. We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare."
"Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great."
"Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all put words like 'iridiums'. And I put 'pig'.
Sophie Kinsella
#40. All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Thomas Carlyle
#41. I couldn't think of anything worse than hating your own music and having to play it every night. It would be a nightmare.
Imelda May
#42. I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.
Elizabeth Neel
#44. Even if you are having a nightmare day during which nothing will go right, never cease looking for the ball. In the end everything will come right, for football is a game that rewards those who show courage.
Duncan Edwards
#45. Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.
Jill Scott
#47. James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare
but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin
#48. I imagine the world from my window ... Traveling, I think it's a nightmare today. The airports and things the people in the street with the selfies ... I like to stay at home and read.
Karl Lagerfeld
#49. When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare.
Marie Helvin
#50. The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do.
Scott Bakula
#51. 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.
Eli Roth
#52. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.
Karl Marx
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I think all mothers are a nightmare - i don't think you can have children and not lose your goddamn mind.
Jennifer Lawrence
#56. 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
#57. '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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.
Bertolt Brecht
#62. Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King.
Deyth Banger
#63. The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
Tommy Lee Jones
#64. 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
#65. A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
Jim Sorensen
#66. History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
#67. 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
#68. If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.
Michael Morpurgo
#69. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. The summer had been like a dream, some parts of it a nightmare, but overall a good dream. Magic.
Elizabeth Kirke
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. A nightmare might force you awakened.
The tough life might force you awakened.
Toba Beta
#78. Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.
Meek Mill
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.
Karl Marx
#82. 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
#83. 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
#85. 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
#86. In some ways my life in Willoughby had begun to fade, much the same way a nightmare loses its grip when you find the courage to reach out in the darkness and turn on the light.
Beth Hoffman
#87. Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.
Anthony Liccione
#89. If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces ... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
Asger Jorn
#90. I think that things happen, and if you don't do something to change them, they just keep happening. Sometimes that's a good thing, and sometimes it's a nightmare.
Kristen D. Randle
#91. A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.
John Katzenbach
#92. I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.
Madeleine Roux
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
Rachel Cohn
#97. He moved to sniff some white-and-yellow flowers.
A nightmare. This was a nightmare. "You can't really like flowers."
Again those dark eyes shifted to her. Blinked once.
I most certainly do, he seemed to say.
Sarah J. Maas
#98. For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
Mario Cuomo
#99. Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated, and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.
Jesse Spencer
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