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Quotes About Nightmares

The shadows of woman and child lie heavily athwart our own fears and nightmares and the two become translated, in the empty, indifferent place, from the local to the monumental. They are nobodies and thus become everybody.
~ Simon Schama
Old Molotov was asked if he dreamed about Stalin: "Not often but sometimes. The circumstances are very unusual. I'm in some sort of destroyed city and I can't find a way out. Afterwards, I meet HIM..."1
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.
~ Siouxsie Sioux
unfortuneately a super abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential of nightmares
~ Sir Peter Ustinov
I screamed to the heavens....loudly screamed.... Trying to change our nightmares into dreams...
~ Maya Angelou
For Sarah, at least, the nightmares had vanished like morning fog, and now she felt sorry for the others, who were not being sent to the Harton School, even though some of them had looked down their noses at her because she wasn't being sent to a "first-class academy.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Since Americans are by nature individualistic and entrepreneurial, by definition, then, the socialist program is anti-American, to say nothing of totalitarian. Socialism is an old dream. Some dreams are nightmares when put into practice.
~ Ben Carson
A dreamcatcher is supposed to catch the bad dreams, to let the good ones through. When I was a child on the reserve, I had one hanging above my bed. I remember staring at it as I listened to my mother cry for hours in the dark. I have never known one to work.
~ Bentley Little
What keeps you awake at night? Demons.
~ Bernhard Schlink
When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
~ Vincent D'Onofrio
By pretending to care about an issue without the courage or will to act, they will have set in motion a scenario that is among their worst nightmares: an activated left with the moral authority to soak the rich with taxes.
~ Stuart Stevens
I dream endlessly, my minstrel,' he said. 'I live in my dreams - they are the only thing this emptiness has not touched. Oh sometimes they are black and dreadful, nightmares from the pit. ... But most of them are wonderful, full of happiness and lost joy, and delight in making and being. Without my dreams, I should have gone mad long ago.' 'Ah,' Gwion said wryly, 'that is true of many men in this world.
~ Susan Cooper
Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, "I still dream about you." "I have nightmares about you." I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside.
~ Josh Lanyon
The large factory became an incandescent symbol of human ambition and achievement, but also of suffering. Time and again, it served as a measuring rod for attitudes toward work, consumption, and power, a physical embodiment of dreams and nightmares about the future.
~ Joshua B. Freeman
Pearsall also describes an eight-year-old girl who received the heart of a murdered child. After the transplant, the girl started having nightmares about the man who had killed her donor. Her mother then took her to a therapist. Details she reported in therapy sessions were so precise—time, weapon, the murderer's clothes, crime scene—that they notified the police. Astonishingly, the girl's information led police to the murderer.
~ Judith Orloff
Mi madre decía que las pesadillas eran un aviso de la conciencia.
~ Julia Navarro
He still had dreams about it. Certainly not nightmares - it could not be worth the energy. But every month or so he woke up from one of those annoying visions where he was back at school (rather absurdly at his current age of eight-and-twenty). It was always of a similar nature. He looked down at his schedule and suddenly realized he'd forgotten to attend Latin class for an entire term. Or arrived for an exam without his trousers.
~ Julia Quinn
How does it feel," whispered Faith, "to come back to your memories and find yourself missing and a dead person in your place? I would feel as if I were disappearing. I would wonder if my father wanted to remember me at all. Do you ever have nightmares where you wake up and find that there is nothing of you left, just a dead person sitting up and wearing somebody else's face?" She saw Paul flinch. She had touched a nerve, and that knowledge made her fiercely happy.
~ Frances Hardinge
They walked between two restaurants, Ruby Tuesday and McDonald's. The McDonald's had the most garish Ronald McDonald statue sitting in a booth. Ronald had a big smile and was too brightly painted and looked as though it might wink as they passed. Myron wondered whether it gave kids nightmares because, when Myron was unsure of his next move, he wondered about things like that. Kitty
~ Harlan Coben
People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.
~ Haruki Murakami
People with dark hearts have dark dreams. Those whose hearts are even darker can't dream at all.
~ Haruki Murakami
As a kid, I had nightmares about Freddy Krueger just from the trailers on TV!
~ Rory O'Malley
The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.
~ Stephen King
Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.
~ Michael A. Arnzen