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Quotes About Nightmare

Their jaws unhinged and they vomited out an oily black substance, which fell to the floor like a river of snakes.
~ Libba Bray
I can sometimes influence a person inside a dream, Henry added. For instance, if someone were having a nightmare, I might say, 'Why don't you dream about clowns instead?' Clowns are your cure for a nightmare? Evie said from the couch, where she lay half-sprawled again, legs crossed, one leg kicking out and back. Never, ever say that to me inside one of my dreams, Henry. Promise me, She shivered. Clowns.
~ Libba Bray
He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knew it, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent delirium of his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness.
~ Aldous Huxley
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~ Douglas E. Richards
Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.
~ Jill Scott
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
~ Jim Sorensen
It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to keep pinching myself. Then I'd wake up kind of in reverse; I'd go back to the nightmare I had to live in. And everything would be clear and reasonable.
~ Jim Thompson
For months, Gómez Pérez Comacho and his family survived aboard the hobbyhorsing, rat-infested vessel dubbed a "flying pig" because of her rotund shape. Comacho thought of her as a fat pig. With her round belly engorged with over two tons of cargo, and a forty-foot draft, the galleon was a nightmare to navigate.
~ Jinx Schwartz
I regarded the pumpkin thief's worst nightmare: splotchy coat, tattered ears, sleeping death rattle. "He gums robbers to death?" I asked. "What if they bring biscuits?
~ Joan Bauer
She'd begun her story to divert him from his nightmare. Little did she know that what she described created its own nightmares.
~ Anna Campbell
What artist could recreate Sidonie's sensuous beauty? No mere dauber could capture the feminine musk on the air. Or depict the soft, uneven pattern of her breathing. Her skin was flushed. A pulse fluttered in the hollow of her throat. Her lips were full and dark, although he'd hardly kissed her. Over and over in the mirrors, she emerged from the loosened gown like a water lily from a lake. He loomed over her like a nightmare.
~ Anna Campbell
Ukrainian politicians' worst nightmare is Donbass separatism, the fear that one day eastern Ukraine will want autonomy, or even bid to rejoin Russia.
~ Anna Reid
In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, "Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.
~ Anne Perry
Vision without action is daydreaming and action without vision is a nightmare.
~ Anon
The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.
~ Aleksey Igudesman
I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be a nightmare if it were the other way around. But it's sometimes a little disheartening.
~ Christian Slater
'Margaret' as a creative entity is something that I'm very happy and proud of. But 'Margaret' as a professional experience was a nightmare until it was rescued by critics and people who liked it.
~ Kenneth Lonergan
a disdain full of disgust for those who don't realize that the only reality is each man's soul, and that everything else - the exterior world and other people - is but an unaesthetic nightmare
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'd like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression of continual tedium in a sensual nightmare.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'd like the reading of this book to leave you with the impression that you've traversed a sensual nightmare.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Let's face it. Nobody predicted Trump. He's a fairytale nightmare that none of us could possibly have imagined. Shame on those 63 million who - especially those Obama voters who crossed over and voted, shame on them for putting this idiot in the White House.
~ Ron Stallworth
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of the Obamacare tech nightmare is how wholly predictable it all was. Anyone who has been involved in building the most rudimentary of web operations knows nothing ever works as it's supposed to. Even awesome Apple, mighty Microsoft, and gargantuan Google miss deadlines.
~ Tina Brown
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.
~ Meek Mill