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Quotes About Nightmares

They had chickens at one time, including this rooster with the mind of a serial killer that gave me bad dreams.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
He brought the hammer down on the stake once more, and the blood that pulsed from Barlow's chest turned black. Then, dissolution. It came in the space of two seconds, too fast to ever be believed in the daylight of later years, yet slow enough to recur again and again in nightmares, with awful stopmotion slowness.
~ Stephen King
I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me.
~ Stephen King
If it's all true, then we're in the citadel of unbelief, where nightmares are dispatched with Lysol and scalpels and chemotherapy rather than with stakes and Bibles and wild mountain thyme.
~ Stephen King
Children tend to have more nightmares than adults, but fortunately they appear to have little difficulty putting into practice the idea of facing their fears with lucid dreaming
~ Stephen LaBerge
Yes, nightmares are frightening. But that does not mean they are bad or meaningless, or without positive value. On the contrary, nightmares contain a great deal of potential energy that can provide the impulse for psychological development. Reframing nightmares as opportunities for growth is an important key to learning from your dreams. With a flexible and lucid approach to life, there are no bad dreams.
~ Stephen LaBerge
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
~ Yann Martel
I was simultaneously tormented by the fact of the Cold War. It obsessed me. It gave me nightmares. It drove me into the desert, into the long night of the human soul. I could not understand how it had come to pass that the world's two great factions aimed mutual assured destruction at each other. Was one system just as arbitrary and corrupt as the other? Was it a mere matter of opinion? Were all value structures merely the clothing of power? Was everyone crazy?
~ Jordan B. Peterson
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
~ Erin Hunter
Every night I had nightmares. I dreamed of rats the size of cats, dead bodies, and needles stuck into me. After we found out that the Nazi's had made soup out of Jewish fat, I dreamed that soap bars spoke to me in the voices of my parents and sisters, asking me, "Why are you washing with us?
~ Eva Mozes Kor
It is not so easy to move on when your sleep is full of nightmarish memories.
~ Eva Mozes Kor
The Night Managers.
~ Bentley Little
Twin terrors: to be awake; to be asleep.
~ Gretel Erlich
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
~ Guy Sajer
Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Scrivo in uno stato di tensione insostenibile. Fra poco sarà l'alba e, allora, io non esisterò più. Privo d'ogni mezzo, privo della droga che — sola — mi ha consentito fino ad oggi di sopravvivere ai miei incubi, non mi rimane altro modo per sottrarmi al tormento: mi getterò dall'alta finestra di questa soffitta, nella squallida strada sottostante.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Then suddenly I saw it. With only a slight churning to mark its rise to the surface, the thing slid into view above the dark waters. Vast, Polyphemus-like, and loathsome, it darted like a stupendous monster of nightmares to the monolith, about which it flung its gigantic scaly arms, the while it bowed its hideous head and gave vent to certain measured sounds. I think I went mad then.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Memories and possibilities are ever more hideous than realities.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream. It
~ H.P. Lovecraft
arcades of horror
~ H.P. Lovecraft
So he thought of her often: when he could not sleep, when he was too tired to think of anything else, when he dreaded going home after weeks upon weeks wishing for quiet and solitude. All she had to do was lay a hand on his arm, her touch warm with understanding and care, and he would be all right, his cynicism soothed, his loneliness subdued, his nightmares forgotten.
~ Sherry Thomas
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
~ Simon Pegg
Madness is when all your nightmares have come true and you just don't care anymore.
~ Simon R. Green