Top 66 Nightmares Quotes

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

One of the most destructive things that’s happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

I have nightmares that I’m going to wake up, and everyone’s driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we’re all getting health insurance.

Ninety percent of people’s nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

I think my character’s getting to the point where he can’t even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can’t sleep anymore.

When I did ‘The Cell’ – no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too – it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

Pay attention to other people’s nightmares because they might be contagious.

All my life, I’ve had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody’s rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it’s easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

It’s not clear whether the brain actually is designed to have nightmares or whether this is actually the process going awry.

I suffer from bizarre dreams and epic nightmares.

As a goalkeeper, you always expect every team to give you nightmares.

When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of ‘War Of The Worlds,’ ‘Them,’ and ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers.’ Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

I remember seeing ‘The Babadook’ and I thought that was such a wonderfully dramatic story but told with these horrifying elements, and that’s incredible. It did give me nightmares but I was glad that I watched it.

I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn’t done it.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‘Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?’

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I’m going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I’m going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children’s nightmares are.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. ‘Bambi’ gave me nightmares.

Much of reality TV has been like the worst nightmares of Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard come true, its seductive allure turning us into gossips in the global village.

The figure of the witch was interesting to me, because of the primal, archetypical witch nightmares I had, even as an adult. But as a kid, it started with Margaret Hamilton in ‘The Wizard Of Oz’ as this inescapable horror.

In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out.

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown’s ‘Nightmares and Geezenstacks,’ my favorite single story is ‘Sound of Thunder,’ by Ray Bradbury.

I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.

I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, ‘whoa how’d they do that?’

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It’s just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don’t worry it’s not the end of the world.

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

I don’t lose sleep over what I have done or have nightmares about it.

Any situation where I feel like people are looking at me and I’ve got to speak is the kind of thing I have nightmares about.

I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel Merman and trombones blasting in the background and who knows what else.

The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions – dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

Our schools should be sanctuaries of learning, not nightmares of cruel and racist behavior.

Nightmares are releases.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

I always had really, really bad nightmares, like night terrors or whatever they’re called. I used to wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to move… I’d hallucinate and have really scary visions and dreams, so I wouldn’t want to sleep.

You have to know who you are, if you don’t you have nightmares.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I had nightmares as a kid. As an adult, I have very prosaic dreams.

Ray Harryhausen’s ‘Sinbad’ picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years – and loved it!

Actresses are nightmares. I don’t hang out with any of them. That’s a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

I have a friend who calls me the queen of the nightmares because I’ve always had really bad nightmares. I keep a notebook by the side of my bed, so I’ll wake up in the night from a bad dream, and my heart’s pounding, and I’m really scared, but I write it down, and sometimes I get ideas for books that way.

Toddlers are couthless. Lord. They are so couth-deficient. They’ll tell you, ‘Those shoes look like my nightmares’ without a second thought because your feelings don’t matter to them.

If you were a kid in the 1950s, and you got nightmares from a story in a horror comic book, you have Al Feldstein to blame. If you were a kid in the ’60s or ’70s, giggling at ‘MAD’s prankster wit, you have Feldstein to thank.

I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of good-natured fun. I never had nightmares I think because all of the old horror stuff that I was exposed to was well meaning in a certain sense.

Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents’ worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don’t know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.

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 nightmares out.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

I don’t think any of us could predict Trump. Trump is the stuff of nightmares. But in talking to people, I knew there was a tremendous level of disaffection and anger and sorrow. I know people felt misrepresented and voiceless.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

The league is shifting. It’s becoming a smaller league, way more speed-dominant. So you’re seeing more backs like me who can run between the tackles, pass-protect, catch and become matchup nightmares. You also have more receivers who are getting jet sweeps, doing different things with the ball in their hands.