Nightmares Quotes

277 Nightmares quotes by 225 unique authors

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for… — Thomas Ligotti
You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever. — Aleksandar Hemon
No one ever really gets used to nightmares. — Mark Z. Danielewski
I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares… — Yann Martel
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light? — Melissa Marr
Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I… — Rick Riordan
Your father wasn’t a positive influence on you, was he? (Simone) Being the god of nightmares, he wasn’t a warm fuzzy bunny. Unless you count… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here. — Suzanne Collins
For a moment Ethan simply stares. Before him is the monster of his nightmares: his sister's murderer, the beast who robbed him of his greatest… — Marianne Curley
Love is universal migraine, A bright stain on the vision Blotting out reason. Symptoms of true love Are leanness, jealousy, Laggard dawns; Are omens and… — Robert Graves
I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the… — Neil Gaiman
Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Of course I have nightmares-Who doesn't? — Darren Shan
I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I… — James Patterson
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King
I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe." -Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan
I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking. — Suzanne Collins
Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the… — Suzanne Collins
I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares. — Ilsa J. Bick
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. — Oscar Wilde
Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around… — Suzanne Collins
How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning… — Suzanne Collins
I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but… — Stephenie Meyer
I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of… — Vladimir Nabokov

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