Nightmares Quotes

“If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well.”
― Kawai Strong Washburn, Sharks in the Time of Saviors

“A night full of nightmares is way better than a sleepless one.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Another stranger, another dream. & my unending silent screams ~”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“A nightmare was a needle plunging through the net of human memory; it slipped past one strand and caught up another on its point, stitching up dark dreams out of the unlikeliest recollections.”
― Kate Quinn, The Huntress

“It was hard work, killing nightmares.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Shadowglass

“She shattered through her horror as if it were a mirror and her sanity were the glinting fragments of broken glass.”
― Nenia Campbell, Escape

“I can't tell my dreams from my nightmares”
― Dan Wells, Mr. Monster

“Another stranger, another dream.
& my unending silent screams ~”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“You are the light of the world, and it is your duty to save the darkness.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“The worst nightmare is the nightmare that continues even when you wake up!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Not being able to sleep is a nightmare.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Lying in bed with his eyes open, he searched the shadows around him, trying to find some steadying, reassuring objects. But the reality was at least as threatening as the nightmares. Having swallowed up all of the familiar shapes of the furniture, the darkness took on the aspect of some unearthly challenge: within this nothingness something monstrous and unknown was surely being spawned. The room had become a kind of breeding ground for monsters.”
― Roland Topor, The Tenant

“Nightmares may be terrifying, but dreams are dangerous.”
― Adam Silvera

“In the city, the line between nightmare and reality was fluid, just as the context of the words killer and death had shifted over time. Perhaps Mord was responsible. Perhaps we all were.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“they never use to see me, I was invisible little boy.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“The future is our present for the next generation. It's our duty and our total responsibility to leave a good deed from our gifts. The way we live our present will lead to a good gift or the worst of nightmares for generations to come”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

“Those who do not pursue their dreams will live in a nightmare.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“too many grown-ups tell kids to follow
their dreams
like that's going to get them somewhere
Auntie Laurie says follow your nightmares instead
cuz when you figure out what's eating you alive
you can slay it”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

“Jeg sover ikke. Jeg kan ikke huske, hvornår jeg sidst har sovet. Jeg hviler mig. Og så falder jeg ned i et mareridt. Nogle gange holder jeg mig vågen med vilje. Men jeg er jo kunstner, så jeg skriver på mine mareridt. Det er min overlevelse. Det er takket være mine ord, jeg har valgt at overleve. Uden mine ord er jeg ingenting.”
― Sara Omar

“Truth is nightmare. All the nightmares have come back home. We send them out at night to terrify the normal, to show them a glimpse of our world, our world of burning Viking longboats sailing over the edge of this cursed earth, plunging into the Sirens’ immortal abyss. A cruel eagle soars over a lake of mothers’ tears, a blood-drenched witness to a Spanish festival of murder, a thousand scarlet massacres on the silver plains ruled by brutal Aztec princes. We are standing amidst a Byzantine legend of pain and we are happy. We communicate directly with the center of the earth. Only pain lives there. That is why we revere it.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“Little did I know that Siddharth was not a dream but a nightmare.”
― Namrata Gupta, Together we were

“Nightmares have seasons like hurricanes.”
― Lorrie Moore, Self-Help

“Michael tried to look at its face, but there was no face there to witness. No matter how hard he tried to focus on its face, he could not see through the darkness surrounding it.'

As human beings, we are always told that time is precious, but no one wants to talk about fear. For fear is quite a luxury, one that we can rarely afford in this world. Thus, we should stop running away from it, turn around, and embrace it.

...fear is a luxury...”
― Niklas Alparós-Lilah, My Soul To Take

“Michael tried to look at its face, but there was no face there to witness. No matter how hard he tried to focus on its face, he could not see through the darkness surrounding it.'

As human beings, we are always told that time is precious, but no one wants to talk about fear. For fear is quite a luxury, one that we can rarely afford in this world. Thus, we should stop running away from it, turn around, and embrace it.

Fear is a luxury.”
― Niklas Alparós-Lilah, Purgatory Diaries: My Soul To Take

“-Michael tried to look at its face, but there was no face there to witness. No matter how hard he tried to focus on its face, he could not see through the darkness surrounding it.-

As human beings, we are always told that time is precious, but no one wants to talk about fear. For fear is quite a luxury, one that we can rarely afford in this world. Thus, we should stop running away from it, turn around, and embrace it.

...fear is a luxury...”
― Niklas Alparós-Lilah, Purgatory Diaries: My Soul To Take

“My night dreams are even more terrorizing than my daydreams, but I won’t go into them because listening to people’s real-life stories is boring enough; who wants to be subjected to someone’s imaginary night?”
― Cazzie David, No One Asked for This: Essays

“El mayor obstáculo para el éxito es la pesadilla. Tendrás que soportar la pesadilla de tener éxito.”
― Enock Maregesi

“What Halim had so fervently wanted, the two brothers accomplished: neither of them had children. Some of our desires are only fulfilled by others. Our nightmares belong to us.”
― Fábio Moon, Two Brothers

“If you see horrible dreams, you have two completely opposite personalities. Maybe there is a medieval fighter inside you who is all about money, sex and food. And a priest inside you who considers all of this a sin. Don't favour one personality over the other. Find middle path. There is a path for everyone.”
― Shunya

“Suppose you are a wedding planner. Your client wants a flying horse for groom. So you will perhaps arrange a wooden horse which lands on stage with wirework. Our mind is like those crazy clients. It desires things which conflict with each other. Soul has to find creative ways to execute those desires in dream world. More conflicting your desires are, more twisted dreams you will see in sleep.”
― Shunya