Nightmare Quotes

790 Nightmare quotes by 620 unique authors

All I ever had before you was nightmares. But now I dream. Because of you. — Larissa Ione
I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they? — Mark Z. Danielewski
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare,… — Ned Vizzini
Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit… — John Grisham
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… — Matt Taibbi
It was unsettling to be in love with someone who looked like the face in her nightmares. — Patricia Briggs
Will holding a secret in your heart make it any less true? If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a… — George R. R. Martin
Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from… — Paullina Simons
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused… — Lauren Oliver
Surely I must be a princess in an enchanted sleep. Any day now, this dream-no, nightmare would end, and I’d get my prince and happy… — Richelle Mead
When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at… — Martine Leavitt
Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.” “I have nightmares about you.” I dragged my T-shirt over my… — Josh Lanyon
Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish… — Gregory David Roberts
But I must admit I didn´t like that idea; do the same thing as everyone else. Eating to live, living to eat - that had… — Simone de Beauvoir
...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of… — Bill Bryson
What happened when you woke up?" "I was having a dream. I don’t know what it was, but when I woke up, I had this… — Ned Vizzini
So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some things. Without the possibility of action,… — Ralph Ellison
Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all… — Mike Carey
I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust… — Cameron Dokey
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone. — Suzanne Collins
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death. — Guy Sajer
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… — Fernando Pessoa
It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real. — Kristin Cashore

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