Nightmare Quotes - Page 33

• ...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Promise, Dawn

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jun 15, 2011

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• I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare.

  Tori Amos

  Dream, Believe, Believe You Can

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why should a financial engineer be paid four, four times... to a hundred times more than the, uh... real engineer? A real engineer build bridges, a financial engineer build, build dreams. And when those dream turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.

  Andrew Sheng

  Dream, Philosophy, Real

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• All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Husband, White

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• Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

  Joan Didion

  Dream, Listening, Want

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

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Love Is, Worst

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• Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?” I say. “I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror,” he says. “You should wake me,” I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. “It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Teamwork, Dream

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• I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.

  Jodi Picoult

  Atrocities, Done, Reason

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Songs of the Humpback Whale: A Novel in Five Voices”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

  Truman Capote

  Laughter, Children, Loneliness

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.124, Vintage

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• Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

  Karl Marx

  Past, Men, Brain

  The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon pt. 1 (1852)

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• If a Latina falls in love with someone who is insecure, it can be a nightmare.

  Sofia Vergara

  Falling In Love, Insecure, Latina

  "Sofia Vergara Gives Men Tips on Landing Latina Women" By Alexandra J. Gratereaux, www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

  Frida Kahlo

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• In the dark, my master let down his guard and he was Caleb again. He didn't correct me. He didn't punish me. He didn't push me away emotionally. Caleb was there to hold me until the nightmares passed. He was there to tell me I was beautiful. He was there to tell me I was going to be okay. In the dark, he seduced me. I didn't want the seduction to end.

  CJ Roberts

  Beautiful, Dark, Want

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• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Twenties, Lasts

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• ...testifying for Dr. Privitera...To these 19 cancer victims, the enforcement of (California) Health and Safety Code Sect. 1701.1, the denial of them medical treatment, albeit unorthodox, albeit unapproved by a state agency, must surely take on a Kafka-esque, a nightmare quality. No demonstrated public anger, no compelling interest of the state warrants an Orwellian intrusion into the most private of zones of privacy.

  Rose Bird

  Cancer, Dark, Agency

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• I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

  Anthony LaPaglia

  Morning, Keys, Fog

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.

  Elyn Saks

  Mind, Splits, Waking

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• Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

  Nathan Englander

  Trying, Waking, Harder

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• Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point to the final blowup of what was once a remarkable, if minor, talent… this is a penny dreadful tricked up in fancy language and given a specious depth by the expert manipulation of a series of eccentric technical tricks. The characters have no magnitude and no meaning because they have no more reality than a mince-pie nightmare.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Book, Character, Reality

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• Packing is always a nightmare.

  Stefanie Powers

  Packing

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• Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

  Jesse Spencer

  Rebellious, Choir, Mum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is an excitement about having nightmares.

  Betsey Johnson

  Excitement

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• I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

  Deepika Padukone

  Loneliness, Home, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Spiritual, Struggle, Sleep

  Idries Shah (1964). “The Sufis”, Anchor Books

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