Nightmare Quotes
790 Nightmare quotes by 620 unique authors
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
— Ransom Riggs
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As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power…
— Unknown Author
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to…
— Florence King
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The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat.…
— Chrissie Hynde
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I still have nightmares about holding German sausages over my head.
— Peter Molyneux
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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility…
— J. G. Ballard
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Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
— Joan Collins
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
— Gaston Bachelard
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Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which…
— Jacob Bronowski
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History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.
— Unknown Author
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At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.
— Rocco DiSpirito
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Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is…
— Annie Dillard
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I think that divorce is hard for anyone. It's a nightmare - it just is - and you can pretend you're fine. And [there are]…
— Nicole Kidman
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Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse.
— Unknown Author
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Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense…
— Paddy Ashdown
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
— Ai Weiwei
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When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to…
— Alberto Villoldo
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Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing…
— Tom Holt
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The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.
— Unknown Author
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Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.
— Jay Leno
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I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. Its just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me…
— Mindy McCready
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I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return,…
— Janet Frame
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If we continue to tell ourselves the popular myths about racial progress or, worse yet, if we say to ourselves that the problem of mass…
— Michelle Alexander
Who Wrote These Nightmare Quotes
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