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Quotes About Nightmares

camel here is frightened by bad dreams in the
~ Rudyard Kipling
She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.
~ Alice Hoffman
As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.
~ Alice Hoffman
They've become sleepwalkers, wandering through their own nightmares, each avoiding the others for fear that a word, a conversation, a kiss will make them realize they aren't dreaming.
~ Alice Hoffman
with dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls
~ Allen Ginsberg
With its towering smokestack, it looked like a factory built to produce nightmares in mass quantities.
~ Joe Hill
I have nightmares about it now. I probably will for months. And I think …" She shook her head. "… what if it isn't over? What if the Sickness that Darth Scabrous created … got out somehow?
~ Joe Schreiber
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
~ Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
He sees enough in three weeks to provide ten lifetimes of nightmares.
~ Anthony Doerr
In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.
~ Sharon Gless
There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone.
~ Ginnifer Goodwin
Kein Schlaf; nur Träume.
~ Franz Kafka
It's only in dreams that I am so sinister.
~ Franz Kafka
I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at night, and so it was a dream that happened a lot, and that's what frightened me.
~ Ruby Bridges
the nightmares of childhood never end but continue forever beneath the surface of memory as beneath the surface of choppy murky water. So long as memory and life endure.
~ Rosamond Smith
When I think now of all the lunatics I knew at Baryton's, I can't help suspecting that the only two manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity, those two absolute nightmares.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When I think now of all the lunatics I knew at Baryton's, I can't help suspecting that the only true manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity, those two absolute nightmares.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
She upset the kids. She told them a really awful story about a pet she had when she was little." "How bad could a pet story be?" "Well," Clea said, knowing this fell in the "only in our family" category, "it eviscerated her cats and could have killed my mother in her sleep. I'd say that's good for a few nightmares, wouldn't you?
~ Luanne Rice
I SLEPT LATE the next morning because I'd woken up every time Jack tossed or turned, worried I'd given him nightmares. When I got up, the Cobra had weighed anchor. As far as I could see, there was the flatness of the ocean
~ Lydia Millet
From now on, every individual, irrespective of rank, must submit their dreams and nightmares to me for examination and approval. If they fail to comply, every dream they have ever had, and every dream they ever will have, will be deemed an illegal dream!
~ Ma Jian
IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her consious mind, or that had ever tormented her in her most terrible nightmares.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
~ Marilyn Manson
Pursuing your dreams is the best way of insulating yourself from your nightmares.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo