Quotes About Nightmares

In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror--indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics, & in them there is not an abyss of agonising cosmic horror that I have not explored. I don't have such dreams now--but the memory of them will never leave me. It is undoubtedly from them that the darkest & most gruesome side of my fictional imagination is derived.

Lately I've been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Bloodlust is like a natural disaster; it has to run its course. I have seen their faces; they are faces out of nightmares—most ordinary—so ordinary that you can't believe the brains behind them capable of genocide.

Just to keep bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

Nightmares have become my dreams. I'm late for my date with destiny. I'm on my path.

May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.

If sometimes dreams come true, what of our nightmares?

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

In my restless dreams, I see that town.Silent Hill.

…my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City. (The Art of Fiction, No. 68. The Paris Review, No. 82, Winter 1981.)

Catastrophe is our bedtime story.

Nightmares do not interest her. She seeks only beauty, though sadness charms her, for often the deepest beauty can be found residing in sadness.

Being grateful is the bridge between the world of nightmares and the world where we are free to say no. It's the bridge between the world of delusions and the world of creativity. It's the power that brings death back to life, the power that turns poverty to wealth and anger to compassion.

I love dreams, even when they're nightmares, which is usually the case. My dreams are always full of the same familiar obstacles, but it doesn't matter. My amour fou—for the dreams themselves as well as the pleasure of dreaming—is the single most important thing I shared with the surrealists.

I would wake, choking on my horror, and stare at the darkness until dawn.

Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure

You don't choose your nightmares; they choose you.