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Quotes About Nightmares

All of my dreams or hunted by nightmares; yet I have boundless visions that are worth millions. -MillYentei
~ Deshawn Yeldell
Ahora que finalmente me he enfrentado a las pesadillas que acosaban mis noches puedo aceptar el fantasma de mi pasado.
~ Diana Martinez
Sleep was not a friend these days. It was just the waiting period between nightmares.
~ Diane Chamberlain
In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.
~ Richard Jeni
A man is having terrible dreams. In them, he is being chased by a demon. He seeks counsel from a therapist, who tells him he must turn around and confront the demon or he will never escape it. He vows to do this, but each night in his dreams, he runs again. Finally, he manages to turn around and look straight at the demon. "Why are you chasing me?" he asks it. The demon says, "I don't know. It's your dream.
~ Jenny Offill
Our fears are informed by history and economics, by social power and stigma, by myths and nightmares. And as with other strongly held beliefs, our fears are dear to us. When we encounter information that contradicts our beliefs, as Slovic found in one of his studies, we tend to doubt the information, not ourselves.
~ Eula Biss
When I wake up in night sweats, that's what I'm thinking about: what if someone grabs me from my past and says, 'I heard you drag me to filth on your podcast.'
~ Jessica Williams
I have had nightmares of not being able to finish my exam papers on time. Everyone is concentrating on their papers whereas I am not being able to write!
~ Koel Mallick
I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
~ Anne Sexton
When I was a child, I had an intense fear of going to prison. I wasn't on the run or anything - my crimes were small and they were all against fashion. But I had nightmares about accidentally killing someone, or being falsely accused.
~ Sara Pascoe
When I wrote 'PG-13,' I had just won 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' all my nightmares had come true, and I was a brat. I was a privileged brat overnight.
~ Sharon Needles
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.
~ Gina Gershon
I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.
~ Sydney Pollack
My insomnia stretched to months. When I did sleep, it was with the aid of a pill, but even that did not prevent the nightmares
~ Robert Dugoni
They take little interest in waking life, choosing to lie most of the time in death-like sleep." "Then
~ Robert E. Howard
I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.
~ Roberto Bolano
My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the extra buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.
~ Robin McKinley
And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed.
~ Robin McKinley
The soldier knew what had happened, and believed; he knew about nightmares. But he knew also that there were nightmares that happened when one was awake, which was a knowledge denied most of the quiet farm folk and city merchants present around him.
~ Robin McKinley
But I return to you now all that you did give me: all the rage and the terror, the pain and the hatred that should have been love. The nightmares and the waking dreams that are worse than nightmares because they are memories. These I return to you for I want them no more, and I will bear them not one whit of my time on this earth more.
~ Robin McKinley
I have had dreams and I've had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams
~ Robin S. Sharma
Jonas Salk lo dijo mejor cuando escribió: «He tenido sueños y he tenido pesadillas. Superé mis pesadillas gracias a mis sueños»
~ Robin S. Sharma
Jonas Salk said, 'I have had dreams and I've had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams
~ Robin S. Sharma
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
~ Robin S. Sharma