Nightmare Quotes

• Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Sleeping
  • Prevents

• Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dream
  • Worst
  • Love Is

• I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Things
  • Travel
  • Idea

• My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Dad

• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Help
  • Learning
  • Learn

• For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Morning
  • Sleep
  • Shadows

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

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Nightmare

• 'The Shining,' 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' 'Halloween.' Those are the greats.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Street
  • Halloween
  • Nightmare

• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Live

• The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, 'Let me in - let me in!' 'Who are you?' I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. 'Catherine Linton,' it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - 'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Voice
  • Horror
  • Melancholy

• Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Play
  • Performer
  • Satge

• I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!

  

  Donald Freed
  • American
  • Dream
  • Nightmare

• I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

  

  Elizabeth Neel
  • School
  • Artist
  • Interested

• People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away.

  

  Henry Selick
  • People
  • Nightmare

• I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.

  

  Ric Flair
  • Dream
  • Nightmare

• I was in college for two years but I didn´t attend too much. Then I decided to drop out. I was having too many nightmares about failing in the exams.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • College
  • Failing
  • Exam

• May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.

  

  Donald Glover
  • May
  • Dream
  • Sweet

• he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Monster
  • Monsters
  • Nightmare

• I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too.

  

  Thomas Brodie-Sangster
  • Good
  • Christmas
  • Fan

• It's just a nightmare. And speed bumps, they did install them and everything and they don't work.

  

  Mary Hansen
  • Work
  • Speed
  • Bumps

• Trench fighting is the bloodiest, wildest, most brutal of all ... Of all the war's exciting moments none is so powerful as the meeting of two storm troop leaders between narrow trench walls. There's no mercy there, no going back, the blood speaks from a shrill cry of recognition that tears itself from one's breast like a nightmare.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • Fighting
  • Blood
  • Meeting

• Our long national nightmare might not be over, but who knows -- maybe it's the beginning of the end of it.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Long
  • Beginning
  • End

• I know, or I dream, that pop music can search out limits, mock restrictions and divisions, exorcise cultural nightmares, contribute to revitaiisation of people's thinking, disturb and inspire if only through its unstable mobility, its readiness to pursue apparently irrelevant links and private associations.

  

  Paul Robert Morley Art of Noise
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Inspire

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