Nightmare Quotes - Page 11

• There's nothing like a clown with a boner to remind you that you're having a nightmare.

  Dana Gould

  Clown, Boners

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• All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.

  Toni Morrison

  Beautiful, Dream, Pain

  Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House

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• You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare.

  Larry David

  Encounters, Problem, Intense

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• 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, Years, Two

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• Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their nightmare fancies are hopelessly out of date. A vast, air-conditioned, neon-lighted, glass-and-chromium broiler-house begins to take shape, in which geneticists select the best stocks to fertilise, and watch over the developing embryo to ensure that all possibilities of error and distortion are eliminated.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Errors, Glasses, Air

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith”, p.109, Ignatius Press

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• I could tell that Mom was dreaming, but I didn't want to know what she was dreaming about, because I had enough of my own nightmares, and if she had been dreaming something happy, I would have been angry at her for dreaming something happy.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mom, Dream, Want

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

  Khushwant Singh

  Kings, Sleep, Night

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”

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• I have seen the rise and fall of Nazi tyranny, the subsequent cold war and the nuclear nightmare that for fifty years haunted the dreams of children everywhere. During that time my generation defeated totalitarianism. As a result, your world is poised for better tomorrows. What will you do on your journey?

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Children, War

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• I felt like I was trapped in one of those terrifying nightmares, the one where you have to run, run till your lungs burst, but you can't make your body move fast enough... But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life: I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Dream, Running, Moving

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• How do you bear it?” Finnick looks at me in disbelief. “I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.” “The more you can distract yourself the better, ” he says. “First thing tomorrow, we’ll get you your own rope. Until then take mine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Katniss, Relief

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• It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

  Jim Carroll

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

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• I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Badass, Eye

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• Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!

  Randy Orton

  Hero, Worst Nightmares, Sick

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• -"Nick?" "I'm still here, Laurant." -"Did you tell Tommy we slept together?" "No, but you just did. He's standing right here." She fell asleep. But this time she didn't have any dreams or nightmare.

  Julie Garwood

  Dream, Together, Stills

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• I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe." -Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  Might, Poseidon, Turn Me

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• I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, I Hate You, Katniss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.156, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

  Suzanne Collins

  Love, Strong, Kissing

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.195, Scholastic Inc.

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• I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Land, Phantoms, Ghost

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• His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

  William Gibson

  Pockets, His Smile

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• Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead, he was unable to wake her from them. Yes, that is death: Tereza asleep, having terrible nightmares, and he unable to wake her.

  Milan Kundera

  Sleep, Gone, Terrible

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• I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Life, Depression, Sleep

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Together, Pieces

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't want to understand. Bert had been thrilled that the police wanted to put me on retainer. He told me I would gain valuable experience working with the police. All I had gained so far was a wider variety of nightmares.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Police, Want, Gains

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “The Laughing Corpse: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.22, Penguin

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• I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Facts, Used, Should

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Innocence

  Ellen Hopkins (2010). “Fallout”, p.526, Simon and Schuster

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