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Quotes About Nightmares

In my hefty elf sack, your nightmares now keep. Better think twice before falling asleep - The Nightmare Elf
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
I've begun to have those stupid dreams. You know the ones where you show up for the final exam and haven't cracked a book all semester?
~ Laurien Berenson
Count Olaf was so obsessed with getting his filthy hands on the money that he hatched a devious plan that gives me nightmares to this day.
~ Lemony Snicket
Tis said that Hitler, disturbed by nightmares, called in a soothsayer. The seer consulted a crystal ball and said, "Ah, mighty Führer, it is foretold that you will die on a Jewish holiday." "Which one?" said Hitler with a scowl. "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday.
~ Leo Rosten
Tis said that Hitler, disturbed by nightmares, called in a soothsayer. The seer consulted a crystal ball and said, "Ah, mighty Führer, it is foretold that you will die on a Jewish holiday." "Which one?" said Hitler with a scowl. "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday." Simchas
~ Leo Rosten
Good night, boys, he called kindly. Sweet dreams. Yeah. Sure. Sweet dreams. Sour nightmares was more like it.
~ James Preller
our collective nightmares are connected to the sins of our national past, papered over or repressed in the making of America and its greatness; on
~ James Shapiro
After him came a cast of characters out of her worst nightmares—Linda Chavez, Arch Puddington, twenty others as bad, all of whom, she could imagine, had a secret password such as a derogatory remark about Toni Morrison, whom Margaret considered a goddess.
~ Jane Smiley
Unzipping that body bag didn't bother me," Ranger said, "but I'm going to have nightmares over this casino.
~ Janet Evanovich
Michael used to draw self-portraits with nightmares hidden in his curls.
~ Janet Fitch
Personally, I have nightmares about the unstoppable monster.
~ David Slade
Basically, I think that Gotham is all of our urban nightmares and fears made into reality. Instead of hearing footsteps from behind you while you walk down the streets, turning around and finding nobody there, there is somebody there.
~ Brian Azzarello
I hate dreaming because when you want to sleep, you want to sleep. Dreaming is work. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-cart with my ex-landlord.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I work with my dreams or nightmares.
~ David Cronenberg
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
~ Lisa Gardner
Nos prometieron que los sueños podrían volverse realidad. Pero se les olvido mencionar que las pesadillas también son sueños.
~ Oscar Wilde
Your wildest misperceptions, your weird imaginings, your blackest nightmares all mean nothing." —A COURSE IN MIRACLES
~ Pam Grout
Our dreams have been assaulted by a memory that will not sleep
~ William Carlos Williams
If you wish to know an era, study its most lucid nightmares. In the mirrors of our darkest fears, much will be revealed. But don't mistake those mirrors for road maps to the future, or even to the present.
~ William Gibson
Fox was quick to see how we could use you, but not sharp enough to credit you with ambition. But then he never lay all night with you on the beach at Kamakura, never listened to your nightmares, never heard an entire imagined childhood shift under those stars, shift and roll over, your child's mouth opening to reveal some fresh past, and always the one, you swore, that was really and finally the truth.
~ William Gibson
Rude creatures emit slime and phosphorescence and move with flickerings of unclear limbs. The logic of their forms derives from nightmares.
~ China Mieville
The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.
~ Chris Gardner
Humanity is capable of such beautiful dreams and horrible nightmares, For Our World Has a lot For every Man's Dream but Not Every man's Greed
~ Christen Kuikoua
Your life, sir, is propelled By a dream of the fear of having nightmares; your love Is the fear of being alone; your world's history The fear of a possible leap by a possible antagonist Out of a possible shadow, or a not-improbable Skeleton out of your dead-certain cupboard.
~ Christopher Fry