Quotes about Nightmares

Holding onto your dreams is better than holding onto your nightmares.

To achieve extraordinary dreams you sometimes have to go through extraordinary nightmares.

then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

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

Most of us don't have nightmares that come to life and try to kill us.

The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The "I do" that "I didn't.

When one assumes that you can substitute license for freedom, when one assumes that you can use another's deficiency for one's own generosity, when one assumes that you can use another person's misery and nightmares in order to clarify your own dreams. When all of those things are done and completed, then the surrender and the betrayal of one's culture is also complete.

When push comes to shove, only one's own nightmares are of any interest or significance.

November 8th, 1943 At night in bed I see myself alone in a dungeon, without Father and Mother. Or I'm roaming the streets, or the Annex is on fire, or they come in the middle of the night to take us away and I crawl under my bed in desperation. I see everything as if it were actually taking place. And to think it might all happen soon! (**good metaphor use later on for English)

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.

As for me, sleep was a country I no longer visited, despite my incantation. When I did, I wished for my waking life, the hours when I didn't see the nightmare images of all that had happened and all I had become.

Future dreams distract you from present nightmares.