Nightmare Quotes

790 Nightmare quotes by 620 unique authors

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into… — Yusef Komunyakaa
But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares. — Erin Morgenstern
I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare. — Elizabeth Scott
Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things… — Ellen Hopkins
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The… — William S. Burroughs
The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is to… — Cassandra Clare
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke… — Julie Delpy
As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you… — Haruki Murakami
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew. — Aberjhani
Summerset, don't you ever sleep?" "It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--" Roarke dropped his briefcase, grabbed Summerset by the lapels. "Has she been hurt? Where is she?"… — Nora Roberts
I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it… — Catherynne M. Valente
It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be left alone; lest… — H P Lovecraft
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. — Bill Bryson
Mary awoke from her nightmare with a pounding heart, convinced that she had only imagined Elizabeth's cruel plot. A full moon was shining into her… — Margaret George
I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously… — Viktor E. Frankl
He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We're playing Scrabble. It's a nightmare." "Scrabble?" He sounds surprised. "Scrabble's great." "Not when you're playing with a family of geniuses, it's not. They all… — Sophie Kinsella
I was never really certain why he scared the bejesus out of me. Nothing scared me growing up. I’ve been playing with dead people since… — Darynda Jones
The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on… — Walter Benjamin
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… — Brandon Sanderson
Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn… — Michael Connelly
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare. — Gail Caldwell
No, I’m not an American. I’m one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy,… — Malcolm X
Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only… — H P Lovecraft
There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a… — Rachel Caine

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