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Quotes About Nightmare

The blazing sun beat down on the concrete of the museum's front yard- Reverend Ryu Yosop felt as if the heat were sucking up all the moisture in his brain and heart. What different colors he and his brother Yohan must have used as each of them painted their own picture of home, of the carnage. These people have constructed yet a different vision of their own, Yosop thought to himself, but it all stems from the same nightmare, the one we created together.
~ Hwang S?k-y?ng
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
~ Idries Shah
Could this be a dream or the ultimate nightmare?
~ Unknown
One of them hasn't got a uniform on or plainclothes either like the rest. He has on the white coat that is my nightmare and my horror. And in the crotch of one arm he is upending two long poles intertwined with canvas. The long-drawn-out death within life. The burial-alive of the mind, covering it over with fresh graveyard earth each time it tries to struggle through to the light. In this kind of death you never finish dying. ("New York Blues")
~ Cornell Woolrich
It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")
~ Cornell Woolrich
Keep her downstairs a minute!' I breathed desperately. I don't know why; you don't want your agonies of soul witnessed by a woman. ("Nightmare")
~ Cornell Woolrich
When no gratitude came, he sighed. "I pretty much bent the laws of nature for you, lady. So…yeah, you're welcome." "I'm having a nightmare." There. That made sense. Julian wasn't a monster. He hadn't grown claws. She hadn't been shot. Creepy Luke wasn't there. This was all— "You are the nightmare now, sweetheart." Luke gave her a chilling smile. "And again, you're welcome.
~ Unknown
Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane
~ D.J. MacHale
I was at Wesleyan first. I was there for a semester because I wanted that traditional college vibe. But when I got there, people would do normal college things, and I was like, 'I can't be here. This is a nightmare.'
~ Billie Lourd
Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.
~ John C. Reilly
Faith's loyal servant," Nick assures him. "And everyone else's nightmare. The name is Nick Rogers." He doesn't extend his hand, nor does Bill extend his own. Bill's eyes narrow at the name. "I've heard you're a real bastard." "And here I thought I got rid of my nice guy reputation. I understand you're leaving. We'll walk you out.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken.
~ Lloyd deMause
Et ça jaillit comme dans un cauchemar, je dégueule des litres de vodka, des litres de champagne, mes illusions perdues, les fantômes qui me hantent, et ça gicle sur le bitume noir avec un bruit d'explosion liquide et sale qui se répercute dans ma tête comme la sentence fatale de mon indignité.
~ Unknown
He didn't mention the other part of the book. That following the heroes when they set out was the tenth member of their party. A broken creature who went through all the same dangers and trials, who had made a single bad choice and taken up a power he didn't understand - and who had become a demented, miserable, living nightmare because of it. In the end, he had been just as necessary to the overthrow of the darkness. But he sure as hell didn't enjoy his part.
~ Jim Butcher
Doing battle with the forces of things trying to kill me, or my friends, or people who can't protect themselves is not a rowdy summer adventure movie. It's a nightmare.
~ Jim Butcher
Living the dream, not the Nightmare.
~ Yelawolf
You can be a sweet dream, or beautiful nightmare either way I don,t wanna wake up from you.
~ Unknown
Woke up from a nightmare about being pregnant and having a miscarriage. Most horrifying dream I've had yet...
~ Unknown
Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep: a drunken soldiery Can leave the mother, murdered at her door, To crawl in her own blood, and go scott-free; The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole.
~ W. B. Yeats
In the nightmare of the darkAll the dogs of Europe bark.
~ W. H. Auden
In the nightmare of the dark All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate; Intellectual disgrace Stares from every human face, And the seas of pity lie Locked and frozen in each eye.
~ W.H. Auden
In the burrows of the Nightmare Where Justice naked is, Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss. 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away, And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.
~ W.H. Auden
I have no mouth. And I must scream.
~ Harlan Ellison
The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.
~ Philippa Gregory