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Quotes About Nightmare

If home ownership is the American dream, then foreclosure certainly is the American nightmare. It destroys more than credit. It destroys lives. And its effects are felt beyond the individual family that it devastates. It shakes our entire economy.
~ Lisa Madigan
Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
an oasis of tranquillity in the heart of a nightmare
~ Peter Stansky
No one tells you how precious and powerful moments of happiness and connection are when you are living through a nightmare.
~ Philip Gould
A monster is not a monster if it doesn't scare you.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Quei ragazzini che non avevano nessun timore dell'incubo di Haden adulto non ci misero molto a finirlo. I grandi dimenticano cosa significhi non aver paura. Un mostro non è un mostro se non ti spaventa.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Retold, my dream is nothing; dreamt, it was terrible.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
This is, after all, his own nightmare, though in his dream the culprit is always leprosy. He is overcome. He takes a deep breath. The journey the two of them embark on together must begin with love, Rune thinks. To love the sick—isn't that always the first step?
~ Abraham Verghese
Truth be told, Patrick was staring at something in particular. Before him, at a distance about half the length of the boat, stood a creature of nightmare that returned his stare. Though Patrick could not see the thing's face, he knew it was looking right at him. That was how it always was. No face. No identity. Even the hands were gloved. But it was obvious that the robed and hooded figure had come to haunt him like some hellish visitation.
~ Adam Copeland
The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
~ Jack Henry Abbott
I would have been a nightmare in any kind of office, because I wouldn't have had any friends in any environment other than performing.
~ Jodie Whittaker
If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare. And we will all be in it, including the Persian Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia. No one will remain unscathed.
~ Avigdor Lieberman
I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
~ Poppy Z. Brite
I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could wish away, I had the same fantasy when you were sick, Doc, that I would one day wake up and you all would be healthy and alive.
~ Rabih Alameddine
The relation in detail of one's dresses and dreams, together with plots of novels and plays one has read and seen should be made a penal offence, except perhaps to Mr. Henry James, to whom I would give the floor for a nightmare.
~ Rachel Ferguson
You're going to listen to me; and if you get ugly like you said, I'll become your worst nightmare.' 'Too late, buttercup. You became my worst nightmare years ago
~ Rachel Gibson
If I'm guilty, I'm the ultimate figure to fear, because I'm not the obvious one. But, on the other hand, if I'm innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable, and that is everyone's nightmare. Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you.
~ Amanda Knox
I am the Democratic Party's absolutely worst nightmare. Why is that? Well, you see, I am a black conservative Republican running against one of the most vulnerable Democrats in America in 2016.
~ Darryl Glenn
The first day I start shooting, I start having a recurring nightmare that every single night that I am lying in bed, and there is a film crew surrounding the bed, waiting for me to tell them what to do, and I don't quite know what movie I am supposed to be making.
~ Peter Jackson
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.
~ Mortimer Zuckerman
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
I don't like to talk about that McCanles affair. It gives me a queer shiver whenever I think of it, and sometimes I dream about it and wake up in a cold sweat.
~ Wild Bill Hickok
Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.
~ Tippi Hedren
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
~ Elyn Saks