Nightmare Quotes

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

  James Joyce

  Truth, History, Trying

  Ulysses (1922)

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• They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dream, Chaos, Wordplay

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• Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!

  Clive Barker

  Reality, Worst Nightmares, Welcome

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Feb 08, 2013

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• There is some consolation in the fact that, even though your dreams don't come true, neither do your nightmares.

  Richard Armour

  Dream, Facts, Consolation

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• I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking

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• The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.

  Sylvia Day

  Vulnerable

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.452, Penguin

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• Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.

  Gail Caldwell

  Scratches, Fantasy

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• In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

  Richard Jeni

  Dream, May, Sooner Or Later

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• The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

  Edward Abbey

  Dream, Terrible, Greater

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

  Jill Scott

  Dream, Mean, Stop Dreaming

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• The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

  Michael S. Harper

  Responsibility, Wake Up

  Michael S. Harper (1977). “Images of Kin: New and Selected Poems”, p.37, University of Illinois Press

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• Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Awareness

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• It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real.

  Kristin Cashore

  Real, Hard

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.99, Penguin

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• Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Forever, Shadow

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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• I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Real, People

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Invitation to a Beheading”, p.29, Penguin UK

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• The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  World, Faces, Ifs

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• Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

  Rachel Cohn

  Dream, Ends

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Said, Worst

  Stephen King (2017). “It: A Novel”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

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• you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Worst Nightmares, World, Trapped

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• I can't tell whether I am living in a dream or a nightmare.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, I Can

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• The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.

  Byron Katie

  Laughter, Understood

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• When you're operating on uninvestigated theories of what's going on and you aren't even aware of it, you're in what I call "the dream." Often the dream becomes troubling; sometimes it even turns into a nightmare. At times like these, you may want to test the truth of your theories by doing The Work on them. The Work always leaves you with less of your uncomfortable story. Who would you be without it? How much of your world is made up of unexamined stories? You'll never know until you inquire.

  Byron Katie

  Dream, Times Like These, Stories

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• Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

  Merrill Markoe

  Moments, Complete Happiness

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• The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams.

  DMX

  Dream

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• I work with my dreams or nightmares.

  David Cronenberg

  Dream

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