Nightmares Quotes

Nightmares always recur, but never our most beautiful dreams.

~ Hannah Lillith Assadi

All nightmares are a peephole through which we see the unsettling particles of our trampled past, whereas all uplifting dreams are a portal to escape the inexplicable undercurrents that worry our survival.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

People are inherently wary and fearful. What is a person more afraid of, the paucity of their dreams or the satanic magnitude of their nightmares? Poetic inventions containing elements of truth comprise all of our nighttime dreams and ephemeral daydreams.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

~ Stephen King

When you wake up from a nightmare, the reality comforts you. When you wake up from the best dream ever, reality is a burden, a slap-in-the-face reminder that you could feel this, you could have this, but you don’t and you won’t.

~ Karina Halle

In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dying, not mourning

~ ;Margaret Atwood

from under the ground, from under the waters,they clutch at us, they clutch at us,we won’t let go.

~ Margaret Atwood

Nightmares and secrets. Ewan wished he knew what had happened to these girls before he found them.

~ C.j. Milbrandt

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

~ Joyce Rachelle

Because of fear, most people don’t dream big. Because of fear, even those who dream big do not start working on them. Because of fear, those who start working on their dreams end up quitting too early.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Spreading its wings, her love stretched out and touching his tangled, frozen soul and from the first word, became ensnared in its icy grip where it remained, intrinsically entwined within an alternating web of dreams and nightmares. Forever lost, forever lost...

~ Virginia Alison

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

~ Dave Pelzer

I could either succumb to the nightmares I’ve raised or paint them.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Nightmares have a dreadful effect of captivating our minds during the waking hours. Nevertheless, they are merely fiction.

~ Erin Forbes

The 2ams have held my hopes all these years as I calm my nerves down for there would only be three more hours for the world to wake up to my screams and wails of excruciating pain.Probably the drug store would open if I wait for three more hours then.8am and the doc would prescribe me a few medicines over whatsapp.I would make three cups of tea by then. I would quiet my mouth as it would bite on my arm.By twelve I would finally be relieved as the meds would work.But it's only midnight now... wish you another goodnight's sleep....

~ Sanhita Baruah

My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a burning city through which giant carnivorous lizards prowled, eating survivors off of balconies. In one particularly vivid moment, I stood on a ledge as the jaws closed in, heat-swept, and tinged with the smell of rotting flesh. Beetles intended for the tough, tight minds of children should not be used by adults. We still remember a kinder, gentler world.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I’m watching a horror movie, there’s a pattern, a sense of control in them. I’m just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It’s a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they’ve got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life’s messy, and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake.

~ Katherine Mcintyre

How's daydreaming affecting nightmares?? Showing the light where is all dark!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Chase your dreams and your nightmares will grow tired of chasing you.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping that when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by the beasts below. Hoping you pull up anything at all.

~ Isaac Marion

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

~ Karen Marshall

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

~ Gabriel Chevallier

You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.

~ J. Aleksandr Wootton

We are more than the person who wakes each day. We are the dreams of the previous night and the nightmares of the week before.

~ Shaun Hick

Give a smile always, not once a while. Life's great when you wake up and ignore the scaring nightmares you had. Forget the bitter bile; life's sweet beyond River Nile. File your teeth out and smile!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Dreams can only be seen with open eyes, what you see while you asleep are nightmares.

~ Amit Kalantri

The crimes of children reproduce themselves, closing their victims in cages built of nightmares.

~ Miri Yū

At night we sort the energy that by day we sense.

~ Initially No

But the fact is, dreams catch us with our armor off.

~ Victoria Schwab

In my sleep I have my nightmares, awake I have my thoughts, I am not sure which is worse.

~ Carl R. White

King shrugged and looked back at Harlen. Please tell me you have a plan. Because my baby girl really likes to color with me.

~ Erin Kellison

Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn't mean you should let those bad dreams scare you away; all those nightmares want is respect. If you give them that, they’ll give you the space you need. Unless, of course, they’re the type of nightmares that have an appetite, then you’re fucked.

~ Dave Matthes

Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren’t there.

~ Shannon Mullen

My pillow is as good as any oceanto drown in the nightmare of myself.I swam all the way here from the moon.

~ Casey Renee Kiser

Life is just a dream, to some it's a sweet dream, to others, a nightmare. But whatever it is, it's always short and dissipates quickly.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One major factor that will prevent your dreams from becoming nightmares is learning to vacate your spectators’ seat and then taking steps towards the players' bench! You've got to play to win!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When she woke up crying for one of her nightmares, the Kolker would stay with her, brush her hair with his hands, collect her tears in thimbles for her to drink the next morning (The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it, he said), and more than that: once her eyes closed and she fell back asleep, he was left to bear the insomnia. There was a complete transfer, like a speeding billiard ball colliding with a resting one. Should Brod feel depressed - she was always depressed - the Kolker would sit with her until he could convince her that it’s OK. It is. Really. And when she would move on with her day, he would stay behind, paralysed with a grief he couldn’t name and that wasn’t his. Should Brod become sick, it was the Kolker that would be bedridden by week’s end. Should Brod feel bored, knowing too many languages, too many facts, with too much knowledge to be happy, the Kolker would stay up all night studying her books, studying the pictures, so the next day he could try to make the kind of small talk that would please his young wife.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.

~ Indiana Lang

I awoke to a daymare. Life.

~ Brian Spellman