Nightmare Quotes

790 Nightmare quotes by 620 unique authors

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare. — Gregory David Roberts
Even if you know you're sleeping, you're still at the mercy of your dreams. People who are asleep can't simply decide to wake up. Nightmares… — Steven James
Computers are scary. Theyre nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this.… — Wesley Morris
The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the… — Emma Goldman
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural… — Jules Henry
One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out. — Anne Sexton
Not stories told by wolf or man to frighten children, of Wolfbane and of werewolves, of grasht and goblins and of silly vampires, fables to… — David Clement-Davies
Alafair Burke's first standalone is a must read! You'll lose yourself in this riveting story of Alice Humphrey, a woman whose nightmare begins when she goes… — Lisa Scottoline
It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is… — Isak Dinesen
I yell and scream like they do. I'm the worst of them. Totally. I'm a nightmare. Once they gave me the passport that was it… — Unknown Author
Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants… — Joan Didion
Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream. — Taylor Swift
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space. — George Wald
Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round… — William Butler Yeats
In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn't correct me. He didn't punish me. He didn't push… — CJ Roberts
I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead… — Wladimir Klitschko
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed,… — David Foster Wallace
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you. — Stephen King
And yet, I do believe there is ultimately meaning in the chaos, and also in the doldrums. What I resist is not the truth but… — Anne Lamott
Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it's time we in America stand up and replace… — Nancy Reagan
The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near… — Edna O'Brien
Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget. — Hetti Perkins
The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting. — Danny Elfman

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