Oscar Wilde
Writer
"They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too."
Nightmare quotes
Nightmare
230 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Charles Bukowski
Poet, Novelist
"I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares."
Marlon Brando
Actor, Director
"I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving."
Keanu Reeves
Actor, Producer
"All the dreams I dream are nightmares and those nightmares are the ones I live."
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"The past lies like a nightmare upon the present."
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"A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick."
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"He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare."
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"One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out."
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"Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream."
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"I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me."
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"The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares."
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"A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams."
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"To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it."
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"There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from."
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"That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess."
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"I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror."
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"I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream."
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"The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood."
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"The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way."
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"Those with the greatest awareness have the greatest nightmares."
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"Consciousness is nature's nightmare."
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"Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares."
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"I'm a little skeptical of so-called narco fiction, I have to say, though some writers I admire may have written some narco fiction. You feel the dread and the atmosphere in Yuri Herrera's extraordinary novels, but you'd never say that what he writes is narco fiction. The same goes for Martin Solares's novels, inspired by the nightmare city of Tampico, where he's from. Valeria Luiselli, Álvaro Enrigue, I know that they're deeply affected by what goes on in Mexico, but their wonderful writing points in another direction, though not necessarily always and only."
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"There's nothing like a clown with a boner to remind you that you're having a nightmare."
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