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Quotes About Nightmares

I remember seeing 'The Babadook' and I thought that was such a wonderfully dramatic story but told with these horrifying elements, and that's incredible. It did give me nightmares but I was glad that I watched it.
~ Betty Gabriel
After I saw 'The Exorcist' it took me a while before I could fall asleep - that girl's head turning around and throwing up all that pea soup!
~ Bushwick Bill
There can be no friendship between our peoples. We live in your nightmares, and you are but our dreams.
~ Sandra Newman
Todavía hoy, en mis pesadillas, vuelvo a la niñez y compruebo que ese período de dolor no ha terminado. Es una herida que crece y se abre con el tiempo.
~ Santiago Gamboa
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
~ Jon Ronson
My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.
~ Vantile Whitfield
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 love. How easy, how fulfilling would it be to take Marduk's life? But the arrow in Ethan's fingers slips to the ground. No. even revenge is too great an honor for you. As the night falls and brings an end to this long day of darkness, Marduk inhales his last staggered breath and his body turns to stone.
~ Marianne Curley
Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.
~ Anthony Burgess
entre tandas de incierto dormitar y temerosa espera, estaban naciendo las pesadillas de generaciones aún por ser.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Second, may all the bad dreams I dreamed last night, and the night before that, and every night of the year before that, come true for my enemies
~ Sholom Aleichem
I take sleeping-pills, but in vain; for I dream. Often in my dream I faint with distress.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I was sleeping like a baby - waking up every three hours screaming and crapping my pants.
~ John Swartzwelder
Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?
~ Emeril Lagasse
I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.
~ banks iain m iii
I don't have any words to describe the sensations that keep me from sleep. Demons, perhaps. A sense of unworthiness so staggering that I could not keep myself upright under its weight. And yet I could not sleep.
~ barbara quick
Freddy Krueger was one of my childhood heroes.
~ Kane
Perhaps Dahomey inoculated me against the African bug which has bitten so many, to their cost, for it breeds grand dreams which often as not turn into nightmares.
~ George MacDonald Fraser
All night I have bad dreams about severed hands. In one I'm eating chili and a hand comes out of my bowl and gives me the thumbs-down. I
~ George Saunders
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
~ J. G. Ballard
Toddlers are couthless. Lord. They are so couth-deficient. They'll tell you, 'Those shoes look like my nightmares' without a second thought because your feelings don't matter to them.
~ Luvvie Ajayi
When you have one of those waking nightmares, when you think bad things in the dark and can't go to sleep, you think happy thoughts. Cartoon dogs, fat clowns, things like that. Except sometimes the cartoon dogs bite and the fat clowns grow sharp smiles. Happy
~ Scott Nicholson
Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm subject to occasional theological nightmares. The one that leaves me in a cold sweat every time is, I arrive at the pearly gates and the first thing I'm asked is where I went to college.
~ Mark Vonnegut
No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski