Top 100 Quotes About Nightmares
#1. Jumped and spun around. Man, my nightmares were making me jumpy. I hit the off button. It's time for school. Ugh. School was so my
Jessica Sorensen
#2. Nightmares have become my dreams. I'm late for my date with destiny. I'm on my path.
The-Dream
#3. I'm gonna have nightmares about kids eating free.
Kevin Harvick
#4. The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.
Bill Buckner
#5. Emergency Rooms ... were the nightmares your nightmares had while they slept.
Nicole Deese
#6. Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.
Susan Sontag
#7. Still having nightmares? I've got something for that. Panic attack on the school bus? This should do the trick. Can't sleep? Let's up the dosage. All those pills were making me fat and stupid, and I was still miserable, getting only three or four hours of sleep a night.
Ransom Riggs
#8. Even when you are silent, even when you block out all noise, your body is still a cacophony of life. Mine is not. It is the silence that drives me mad. The silence that drives the nightmares to me. Because
Beth Revis
#9. I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.
Jay London
#10. Because I can't handle the nightmares. Not without you.
Suzanne Collins
#11. Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.
Lorene Scafaria
#12. Give a smile always, not once a while. Life's great when you wake up and ignore the scaring nightmares you had. Forget the bitter bile; life's sweet beyond River Nile. File your teeth out and smile!
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. SHOCK ABSORBERS
Veterans scream in their dreams, reliving nightmares so that we can sleep peacefully
Kamil Ali
#14. If you don't believe in ghosts, why you wake up from nightmares screaming out the names of your dead friends?
Peter Fryer
#15. In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
Zac Efron
#16. Maybe that is what Hell is, being trapped for ever in your own nightmares and never being able to wake. [Gisa]
Karen Maitland
#17. The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry is a terminal activity, taking place out near the end of things.
John Berryman
#18. World's most widely read books. In the years that followed, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Anchee Min, and Dith Pran shared their harrowing memories of the communist nightmares in the Soviet Union, China, and Cambodia.
Steven Pinker
#19. I'll dissolve when the rain pours in,
When the nightmares take me,
I will scream with the howling wind,
'Cause it's a bitter world and I'd rather dream.
Owl City
#20. So long as a canvas is empty its potential is infinite ... The empty canvas can become a gateway into the landscape of nightmares or a vision of sensual bliss.
Ben Okri
#21. Dead flesh and sharpened scalpels didn't bother me. I was my father's daughter, after all. My nightmares were made of darker things.
Megan Shepherd
#23. Well, I just don't want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it's just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.
Jhonen Vasquez
#24. I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
Mark Z. Danielewski
#25. And the thing about falling in love
is that no matter where you are when it happens, you can't help but to color those moments with beauty,
even if you're in a location of ugliness. He made what would have been a place of nightmares into a place
to dream.
Mia Sheridan
#26. The nightmares arrived like they always did, much like the best player in the opposition when you've heard rumors that he might be injured or sick-but there he is, warming up with the rest of them, ready to take the field.
Markus Zusak
#27. That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.
Stephen King
#28. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
L. Frank Baum
#29. Words like guilt and shame and nightmares - the kind of nightmares that drag you from sleep, and leave you reaching for something no longer there.
Nathan Filer
#30. Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.
J.G. Ballard
#31. I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.
George Eads
#32. Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don't care anymore.
Simon R. Green
#33. The great focus on their dreams;
the weak focus on their nightmares.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. The nightmares were so devastating that as a self-defense mechanism his brain did all it could to keep him awake at night. Instead of falling asleep, Hunter read ferociously. Books became his refuge, his castle. A safe place where the ghastly nightmares couldn't breach the gates.
Chris Carter
#35. You want to hear a riddle, you say? I know a very good one. It begins, why is a raven like a writing desk?'
She lifted her chin. 'Have you gone mad, Hatta? I can't seem to tell.'
'They are both so full of poetry, you see. Darkness and whimsy, nightmares and song.
Marissa Meyer
#36. Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem ...
P.W. Creighton
#37. This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?
Ann Voskamp
#38. My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them.
Philippos Syrigos
#39. With its towering smokestack, it looked like a factory built to produce nightmares in mass quantities.
Joe Hill
#40. Sometimes in life, we need to be pushed to conquer our fears, challenge our nightmares, realized our dreams and achieved our goals, in order to be the best we can be. - CG Murphy
Courtney Murphy
#41. ,Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares - most ordinary - so ordinary that you can't believe the brains behind them capable of genocide.
John A. Williams
#42. That night as they slept in each other's arms neither Alistair nor Sophia had any nightmares.
Cristiane Serruya
#43. As I tell people about genocide, I get the opportunity to redeem myself. I've had the chance to do something that's worth me being alive ... The more I tell people, the less the nightmares haunt me.
Loung Ung
#44. Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares.
Tina Fey
#45. Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.
Jodi Picoult
#46. One day, while at the drugstore picking up some aspirin for my Mom, dear old Mrs. Burns, our pharmacist, shoved a pack of condoms into my hand with a conspiratorial wink.
"They glow in the dark," she whispered.
This, from a sixty-five year-old granny, I kid you not. Stuff of nightmares.
Ramona Wray
#47. We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.
Shaun Hick
#48. Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
John Irving
#49. FORGET THE CHICKEN-NUGGET SMOKE SCREEN. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat. That night he had horrible nightmares.
Rick Riordan
#50. An hour ago Franks had been swatted across the Strip by a dragon made of ectoplasm and nightmares. Bureaucratic plotting seemed inconsequential in comparison.
Larry Correia
#52. I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
Bear Grylls
#53. Of all the things I'd imagined in nightmares and dreams of dead things, the woman who gripped my leg was the worst and my last.
Brian Hodge
#54. Gardeners produce flowers that are delicious dreams, and others too that are like nightmares.
Marcel Proust
#55. I helped those in, who were locked out, others i helped keep out, what couldn't be let in, so that they could sleep without nightmares.
Nicole Krauss
#56. When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell's pitiless truth.
Michel Foucault
#58. It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [ ... ]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.
Mahsa
#59. Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.
Ozzy Osbourne
#60. The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams.
DMX
#61. What happens when your dreams are nightmares stuck on repeatrepeatrepeat?
Amanda Lovelace
#62. There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#63. You took my nightmares and turned them into dreams
Jay McLean
#64. Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends
of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.
Brandon Sanderson
#65. Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.
Tama Janowitz
#66. Humankind has always had access to Shadow
dreams, nightmares, legends, inspiration, Humanity taps into Shadow every day. And when we die, we pass into Twilight.
Erin Kellison
#67. I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#68. Nightmares never last. one day you wake up and they're gone.
Akira Toriyama
#69. Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#70. I make love to you when I hold you at night and chase away your nightmares. I make love to you when I do things to bring that beautiful smile to your face.. I make love to you every day, Kylie, in every simple gesture.
Bethany Bazile
#71. But I understood, now, that we don't live only for ourselves. We're connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion.
I learned that even when we're going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#72. I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. 'Bambi' gave me nightmares.
Danielle Panabaker
#73. Brenna's eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead.
"Why do I keep telling you things I swore I'd take to my grave?"
The contact shot electricity through his nerves. "Because you know I'll always be your shield against the nightmares.
Nalini Singh
#74. I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.
Laini Taylor
#75. I've had recurring nightmares that I was loved for who I am ... and missed the opportunity to be a better man.
Muse
#76. Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.
Ben Carson
#77. Zombies were bad enough. Zombies silently appearing out of the mist were the stuff of acid-infused nightmares.
Mark Tufo
#78. May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.
Donald Glover
#79. When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible.
Ken Livingstone
#80. I try to distract myself from reality by wielding an active imagination. Then I have nightmares.
Donna Lynn Hope
#81. Unzipping that body bag didn't bother me," Ranger said, "but I'm going to have nightmares over this casino.
Janet Evanovich
#82. One of those nightmares where it's the final exam for a course
Tim Kreider
#83. I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.
Jung Chang
#84. Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times ... to a hundred times more than the, uh ... real engineer?
A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams.
And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.
Andrew Sheng
#85. I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.
C. Nzingha Smith
#86. I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.
Claire Danes
#87. I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.
Maria Semple
#88. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children ... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
Anne Sexton
#89. Be glad that I'm not a horror writer, some people write about it, other make images... but third just create it??? As for me, I have create it from horror up to nightmares!
Deyth Banger
#90. I am not afraid of nightmares, because mine came true and I lived through them.
Victoria Schwab
#91. My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.
Nina Garcia
#92. In the end, I did whatever I could to stave off her nightmares.
Roshani Chokshi
#93. Capable heart. As has happened countless times, he lost me for months on end and not only never complained, he immersed himself in the story, escorted and supported me, provided me with endless pots of tea and emergency gin and tonics. Sorry for the nightmares. Wendy Holden
Wendy Holden
#94. Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
Hetti Perkins
#95. In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#96. And that is how someone who is unusally susceptible to nightmares, night terrors, the Creeps, the Willies and the Seeing Things That Aren't Really There talks himself into making one last trip to the abandoned, almost-certainly-haunted house where a dozen or more children met their untimely end.
Ransom Riggs
#97. So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.
Stephen King
#98. Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!
Warren Spector
#99. When it comes to the reason why we have nightmares, we're still debating that. It's a new area of research, nightmares. And the way I like to think about it is, our brain - we have stress during the day and our brain needs to learn to process this stress.
Shelby Harris
#100. The project I did last year was on Jeffrey Dahmer,' I said. 'He was a cannibal who kept severed heads in his freezer'
'I remember now,' said Max, his eyes darkening. 'Your posters have me nightmares. That was boss.'
'Nightmares are nothing,' I said. 'Those posters gave me a therapist.
Dan Wells
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