Nightmare Quotes

790 Nightmare quotes by 620 unique authors

God is universal," spluttered the priest. The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God." "And with their one god Muslims are always causing… — Yann Martel
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical… — Jack Kerouac
He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare. — Charles Bukowski
As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One… — Anne Rice
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
... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. — Joseph Conrad
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans,… — Jack Kerouac
Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead,… — Milan Kundera
I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without… — Haruki Murakami
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,… — Karl Marx
I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own… — Jonathan Safran Foer
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,… — Anne Sexton
Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares. — William Shakespeare
You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many… — Larry David
All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her… — Toni Morrison
Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered… — Orson Scott Card
His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan) — William Gibson
We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time and space may not really be proofs that… — Arthur Machen
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. — Oscar Wilde
I see IT in the hallway. IT goes to Merryweather. IT is walking with Aubrey cheerleader. IT is my nightmare and I can't wake up.IT… — Laurie Halse Anderson
In the middle of the night I am awakened by a sound. I sit up abruptly in bed. I hear it again. It's music. Wait,… — Deb Caletti
Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat. — Joseph Heller
He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them… — Peter S. Beagle

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