It was a time of dark dreams. They washed in like flotsam…

“In life we don't always get what we want; hopes and dreams get washed away so easily, hearts are broken, chances are missed, and…

— Rebecah McManus

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“And so, all the night-tide, I lay down the side, of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in the sepulchre there…

— Edgar Allan Poe

For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is…

— Mary Webb

“I guess even at nine I had a serious lack of spiritual purity, for my wounds soured within two days, and for nine weeks…

— Mark Lawrence

“My dreams are restless, the past rising up to haunt me or delight me by turn. The dark dreams take me back to that…

— Casey Hill

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

— Hortense Calisher

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

— Haruki Murakami

Neither awake nor in a dark dream are perilous blades just as they seem.

— Dennis L. McKiernan

The one you love leans forward, smiles, deceives you, Opens a door through which you see dark dreams.

— Conrad Aiken

London is like a cold dark dream sometimes.

— Jean Rhys

“At some point, during the early hours of the morning, the dreams found their way in. they were dark dreams, treacherous, submerging Violet in…

— kimberly Derting

When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it.…

— Anonymous

I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at…

— John Connolly