Terrible Dreams Quotes

#1. But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly.

William Shakespeare

#2. And he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#3. You didn't sleep?"

"No! The dreams are terrible. In my dreams, she doesn't even look like herself anymore. I don't even remember what she looked like.

John Green

#4. And George saw the clown's face change. What he saw then was terrible enough to make his worst imaginings of the thing in the cellar look like sweet dreams; what he saw destroyed his sanity in one clawing stroke. "They

Stephen King

#5. Everything is dangerous. Even in your dreams. Even if you sleep without dreams. From the moment you jump out of bed and take that first breath. Something terrible might happen. Someone's bound to die before the story is over. You might even fall in love.
-The Man On The Ceiling

Steve Rasnic Tem

#6. But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams.

Heinrich Heine

#7. There was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

Eleanor Dark

#8. People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

Miranda Hart

#9. Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve ... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

Eric Maisel

#10. Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Alphonse Karr

#11. I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the same with books.

Per Petterson

#12. No man in the history of ever has turned down a blowjob, he gritted.

Amy Lane

#13. Many people can't sing their praise or feel proud of themselves in front of others because they are scared to be labelled as 'arrogant' or 'big-headed'. Social acceptance is more important than self-esteem in the 21st century - and that's not good.

Maddy Malhotra

#14. You are organic, aren't you? Or am I talking to a statue again?

Christina Daley

#15. He'd built his life on wanting the impossible - true power, recognition, a future - and now magic had found him the moment he stopped looking. It breathed life into all those old dreams, filling him with that most terrible of questions:
What if . . .

Roshani Chokshi

#16. To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia

Jim Noel

#17. To write good SF today ... you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.

Gardner Dozois

#18. Once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied

Mitch Albom

#19. It can be a terrible curse for a man to get everything he ever dreamed of. If the shining prizes turn out somehow to be empty baubles, he is left without even his dreams for comfort.

Joe Abercrombie

#20. I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

Pamela Stephenson

#21. Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.

David Mamet

#22. For Arthur, at last, had come.

Bernard Cornwell

#23. Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it's gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?"
The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We're all damaged somehow.

Libba Bray

#24. How terrible, those dreams before sleep were - the worse kind, mixing hope with despair ...

John Geddes

#25. DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear."
MORPHEUS: "And I am far more terrible than you, sister.

Neil Gaiman

#26. So spoke Grenouille the Great and, while the peasantry of scent danced and celebrated beneath him, he glided with wide-stretched wings down from his golden clouds, across the nocturnal fields of his soul, and home to his heart.

Patrick Suskind

#27. I felt terrible. The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had.

Charles Bukowski

#28. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why

Mark Lawrence

#29. My lyrics say I have morals, I have confidence, I have weaknesses, I have strong points, that I am a human being.

Kendrick Lamar

#30. She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!

Carolyn Keene

#31. Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Mark Lawrence

#32. Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#33. I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race.

Oscar Pistorius

#34. The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

Edward Abbey