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Quotes About Nightmares

I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day's dying, I take off my skin and lay it nicely on my armoire. I take off my bones and hang them up on the hatstand. I set my scythe to washing on the old stove. I eat a nice supper of mouse-and-myrrh soup. Some nights I drink off a nice red wine. White does not agree with me. I lay myself down on a bed of lilies and still, I cannot sleep.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And I was – still am – in a state of permanent terror that the pancreatitis may return. I still have nightmares about hospital and it is two years since my last admission. Those nights in A&E haunt me, and will probably do so forever, with their brutality and pain. No wonder I took a bit more, then a bit more, until it all spiralled out of control. No wonder I tried to run from those damaging memories into the arms of mother opiate. Charlie
~ Cathryn Kemp
It involved Melisande, and the razor-sharp blades they call flechettes, and a good deal of me screaming ... I have dreams about it still, and Elua help me, some of them are exquisite.
~ Jacqueline Carey
idea! Maybe your dreams are nightmares. Make a list of the things you are doing where you can avoid your worst
~ James Altucher
Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.
~ Wesley Morris
Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
~ Kate Bush
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
~ Robert Englund
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.
~ Jonas Salk
My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.
~ Siouxsie Sioux
It's not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.
~ Matthew Walker
I haven't had nightmares for some time, but growing up 'Grotbags' certainly haunted my dreams.
~ Alex Horne
Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.
~ Letitia James
I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.
~ Marilyn Manson
I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.
~ Guillermo del Toro
There are two major masterpieces that really brought the language of dreams or nightmares to the screen. The initial one is Dali and Bunuel's 'Un Chien Andalou,' and then later, David Lynch's 'Eraserhead.'
~ Gaspar Noe
There is an excitement about having nightmares.
~ Betsey Johnson
I used to have nightmares about the civil war when I got to England at ages 14 to 15. It took me some years to get over that.
~ Alek Wek
When I was little, I used to have nightmares about Godzilla walking out of the Great South Bay, because we had a fire alarm out where we lived that sounded just like his feet.
~ Chris Claremont
I like Meek Mill a lot. I listen to 'Dreams & Nightmares' introduction a lot. I always act crazy when the beat drops.
~ Joel Embiid
But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
~ Jon Ronson
I've had a quite a few nightmares about being chased by walkers.
~ Laurie Holden
You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.
~ Stephen Rea
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
~ Logan Pearsall Smith