Quotes About Nightmare

she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during WWII in Italy]

It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice—

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication.

You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love.

Protect your dreams from your nightmare

'Hold Me' was a nightmare! It was the middle of the desert in Palm Springs, in the height of summer. I don't know what possessed us to do that. But we sometimes do crazy things.

I'm a social cripple in a cocktail party. My idea of a nightmare is people standing very elegantly dressed in a room with a drink in their hand. I'm just like, 'Urghh!'

I actually keep having this one recurring dream where I'm a little number standing in a line of other numbers that look identical to me. Then there are more and more of these numbers that follow me, again and again and again. It's more of a nightmare.

In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring.

Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.

The "Vasco da Gama's era" ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

The fear of loneliness has been like a ball and chain restraining ambition, as much of an obstacle to a full life as persecution, discrimination or poverty. Until the chain is broken, freedom, for many, will remain a nightmare.

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more.

College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.

I had a nightmare that I was mopping floors and that this Freddie Gibbs thing was all a dream.

Yeah, it's every parent's worst nightmare, to lose connection with your children, to not fully engage with them or have an understanding of what crowd of people they're mixing with, what they are watching online.

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.

A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.