Quotes About Nightmares

I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.

People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out.

I hate being lost, so much so that quite often I dream of not being able to find my way. Along with two other nightmares, missing trains and planes, it happens in reality quite frequently: cruelly often when I am searching for a church or museum containing a rare work of art.

When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us In the dark don't we know And when we are paralyzed by nightmares We know what you are. With our first cries we rail against you. We see you in every drop of blood in every tear.

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.

Holding onto your dreams is better than holding onto your nightmares.

Our most beautiful dreams are born from our most unpleasant nightmares.

Pursuing your dreams is the best way of insulating yourself from your nightmares.

To achieve extraordinary dreams you sometimes have to go through extraordinary nightmares.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!

What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?

She might scream when the nightmares found her, but not by choice, not when she was awake.

Qué significa que las pesadillas sueñen con la paz? ¿Que lassombras suspiren por la luz?

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

I've dreamed again of being in hell, vast cliffs with eyes, iron streets populated with gargoyles, half-dressed harpies, and in the streets chariots going of themselves, spitting the stench of pitch and sulphur

It's freezing in my place. I remember that earlier in the evening, just before leaving, I smashed a window with a blow of the fist. Yet, oddly, my hand is intact; no cuts. I lie down even so, and I sleep. The nightmares will only appear much later in the night. Not instantly recognizable as nightmares; even rather pleasant.

The experience I had had when I interviewed Agmatir started to haunt me. During the numberless hours before daybreak, I would wake from nightmares. I was physically exhausted. Allowing a serial killer to enter your mind and allowing his perverted sexual fantasies to cloud your own psyche causes mental damage which can become permanent.

the hours of sleep I had lost and the nightmares that I was riding bareback by then.

Those heart-hammering nightmares that start to lose coherence even as you're waking up from them, but that still manage to leave their moldering fingerprints all across your day.

You remember that friend of mine, the Doctor?" Ali nodded. "Well, he's an expert on monsters. Sorts 'em out all the time." "Really?" "Really. He gives THEM nightmares.

Alguns dos nossos desejos só se cumprem no outro, os pesadelos pertencem a nós mesmos.

Dreams are meant to be kept secret, mostly bad dreams that are still unrevealed.

Most of the leaders are still haunted by the nightmares of slavery, mostly mental colonisation in general.