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Quotes About Nightmares

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.
~ Chelan Simmons
I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done.
~ Steve Carell
I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.
~ Jung Chang
I had nightmares after being with the national team. You shouldn't have things like that.
~ Ada Hegerberg
Ever since she was a child, she'd struggled to sleep, but now night was even more her enemy. Sometimes she didn't sleep for days on end and could barely function. Other times she slept fitfully, her nightmares filled with the horrors of her past, the cases that haunted her. Work was her salvation
~ Rita Herron
Nightmares happened when you slept, and sleep was the demon he chased at night
~ Rita Herron
I've a pocket full of dreams to sell, said Teddy, whimsically,... What d'ye lack? What d'ye lack? A dream of success--a dream of adventure--a dream of the sea--a dream of the woodland--any kind of a dream you want at reasonable prices, including one or two unique little nightmares. What will you give me for a dream?
~ L.M. Montgomery
Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?
~ Laura Ruby
We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.
~ Laura Wiess
Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Just because you start the day off with nightmares doesn't mean you don't still have to go to work. Sometimes being a responsible grown-up sucked a lot.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Do werewolves dream of shapeshifted sheep?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreams like that's going to get them somewhere Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Too many grown ups tell kids to follow their dreams, like that's going to get them somewhere. Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead. Because when you figure out what's eating you alive, you can slay it.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
No. Absolutely not. I forbid it. You'll have nightmares. She was my friend! You must allow me. Why are you so horrid? As soon as the angry words were out of my mouth, I knew I had gone too far. Matilda! Mother rose from her chair. You are forbidden to pseak to me in that tone! Apologize at once.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Mostly I watch the scary movies playing on the inside of my eyelids.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
too many grown-ups tell kids to follow their dreams like that's going to get them somewhere Auntie Laurie says to follow your nightmares instead cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive you can slay it
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
They can tell no one that they have gone through the looking glass and into the world where nightmares are real.
~ Adrian McKinty
It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.
~ Alan Dean Foster