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Quotes About Nightmares

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
~ Jonas Salk
You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you? Who calmed you down and eased your fears. You can feel angry and betrayed, but some part of you will always love them for being there on those scary nights, for giving you a place to run to where your nightmares couldn't follow, the one place where you could descend finally into slumber knowing, at least for the time being, that you were completely safe.
~ Jonathan Tropper
After a democratic interlude the "monarchy" returns with a vengeance, returns by the back door, camouflaged, masked and diabolically perverted—a blood-curdling metamorphosis we know only from nightmares or surrealist films. The reassertion of the natural father-urge does not result in the restitution of the paternal kingdom but in the rise of the Terrifying Father, a Krónos devouring his own children, who are paralyzed by his magnetic glare like rabbits facing a boa constrictor.
~ Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
This tree is breaking its vow of silence to remind you not to give the new apprentices nightmares
~ Erin Hunter
Lionblaze interrupted him as Dovepaw's and Ivypaw's eyes grew even wider. "This tree is breaking its vow of silence to remind you not to give the new apprentices nightmares," he warned.
~ Erin Hunter
I was happy for him. He did not have a sunken molue in his brain. Rastafarians and diseased children didn't torment him. He hadn't been a salesman of nightmares- he had only ever been their administrator.
~ Ben Okri
I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
~ Haley Bennett
If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.
~ Emmanuel Jal
All dreams are young, my host, my friend. All dreams belong to youth, whether they be nightmares or idylls.
~ Greg Bear
I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.
~ Jay London
Having your worst nightmares kind of come true is truly liberating.
~ Eddie Alvarez
I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.
~ Julian Casablancas
I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.
~ Leven Rambin
The negative effects of combat were nightmares, and I'd get jumpy around certain noises and stuff, but you'd have that after a car accident or a bad divorce. Life's filled with trauma. You don't need to go to war to find it it's going to find you. We all deal with it, and the effects go away after awhile. At least they did for me.
~ Sebastian Junger
S Novom je godinom zapo?eo novi kozmi?ki ciklus. Neka no?ne more iz prošlosti zauvijek nestanu!
~ Shan Sa
Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.
~ Joseph Heller
People ask me all the time, 'What keeps you up at night?' And I say, 'Spicy Mexican food, weapons of mass destruction, and cyber attacks.'
~ Dutch Ruppersberger
He had spent almost two years hearing a baby cry in his nightmares while he found it impossible to reach her.
~ Mary Balogh
I began to pick through the red rivers of confusion; I began to take apart the deep stitches of nightmares.
~ Mary Oliver
los mismos sueños que me habían servido de sustento y solaz durante tanto tiempo, se habían convertido ahora en un infierno para mí.
~ Mary Shelley
It was one of those rare nights when I was kept awake not by my nightmares and anxieties but by something exciting and exhilarating. Most nights I lay awake waiting for some unexpected disaster…I think I somehow felt that as long as I was conscious, nothing bad could happen…
~ Azar Nafisi
Several months into the class, my girls and I discovered that almost every one of us had had at least one nightmare in some form or another in which we either had forgotten to wear our veil or had not worn it, and always in these dreams the dreamer was running, running away.
~ Azar Nafisi
I've been having nightmares," she said quietly. "Basically the same dream for months now. I'm exhausted.
~ Barbara Davis
Sometimes, in his nightmares, everything on this desk sings at once. He comes back
~ Barbara Kingsolver