Nightmarish Quotes

17 Nightmarish quotes by 16 unique authors

Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest… — David Foster Wallace
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror… — Massad Ayoob
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a kind of nightmarish… — Wallace Shawn
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown… — Manny Farber
If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul’s Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish. — Julie Klausner
You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing… — Judy Garland
I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits… — Alan Moore
Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity. It is a kind of bottomless stupidity, a fiendish stupidity. They are… — Werner Herzog
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
Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous,… — Laurell K. Hamilton
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart. — Iris Murdoch
A: There is no grand scheme of things. B: If there were a grand scheme of things, the fact – the fact – that we… — Thomas Ligotti
At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa.… — P. C. Cast
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens
Ever-busy, ever-building, ever-in-motion, ever-throwing-out the old for the new, we have hardly paused to think about what we are so busy building, and what we… — James Howard Kunstler
Why not try thinking of your life as hilarious rather than nightmarish? — Julia Sweeney
Learning, however is greatly dependent on your desire to welcome and embrace it. To be disciplined and humbled by it. You are surely grateful that… — Pacifiersucker

Who Wrote These Nightmarish Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 17 Nightmarish Quotes as follows: