295 Quotes About Nightmares

How do you tell a dream from a nightmare? If it involves a book burning , it's probably a nightmare.

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

It is when one begins to lose the consciousness of freedom, and when the idea of necessity enters the world at all, when there is any hurry or strain anywhere, a letter to be written or a train to catch, when you have got to work, to make the horses of the dream gallop, or to make the rifles go off, that the dream is declining, and turning into the nightmare, which belongs to the poorest and most vulgar class of dreams.

You never know. Maybe when we’re dreaming…we’re more lucid than when we are awake.

It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows.

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

He leans in, resting his weathered hand on the bed. "Treat all the bad things like dreams, Kenzie. That way, no matter how scary or dark they get, you just have to survive until you wake up.

Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.