Night Terrors Quotes

• For the night is dark and full of terrors.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark, Night, Thrones

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1746, Bantam

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• When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

  Mark Gatiss

  Keys, Years, White

  "Doctor Who: Night Terrors". TV Series, September 3, 2011.

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• I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

  Joseph Heller

  Dream, Night, Long

  Joseph Heller (1975). “Something happened”

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• People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

  Max Beerbohm

  Dream, People, Breakfast

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1968). “Around Theatres”

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• Night terrors are in deep sleep, and they're more common in kids, as are nightmares, but what happens in a night terror is like a flash - we think a flash of some image or something happens in the brain. We don't really quite know what. And it usually ends up with the child screaming almost like screaming bloody murder. It's very scary for the parents or whoever else is around.

  Shelby Harris

  Children, Sleep, Kids

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

  Julian Casablancas

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

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• I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

  Edward Bloor

  Dream, Real, Night

  Edward Bloor (2007). “Taken”, p.170, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• We think is happening in the brain, the way I like to think about it is, it's almost like, you're brain is going through all these stages of sleep and it's developing in children so fast that it's almost like you're shifting gears in a car. And at some point, you actually stall out a little bit, and that's kind of what happens during a night terror.

  Shelby Harris

  Children, Sleep, Night

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

  Emma Forrest

  Fighting, Night, White

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Now there's some night terrors that happen in adults. And if it starts as an adult and you've never had them before, then there might be other things that are happening; it might be anxiety, depression, stress. And that's when you might have more of a thorough psychological evaluation.

  Shelby Harris

  Stress, Night, Anxiety

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Tis a sad day when ye ha' t' pinch yerself t' see if ye're awake or in th' midst o' a night terror. 'Tis a really sad day when ye have t' pinch yerself twice." Old woman Nora to her three wee granddaughters on a cold winter's night

  Karen Hawkins

  Winter, Night, Granddaughter

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• I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Fall, Character

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• Night terrors are very different from nightmares. A lot of people will think they're the same, but they're really not. Night terrors - you want to look at the time of night when you're having the problem. Night Terrors happen in deep sleep. Nightmares tend to happen in a lighter REM sleep.

  Shelby Harris

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• ...But he was a good landlord. When my heater stopped working in mid-December, it took him only two weeks to get it fixed. Of course, it took me knocking on his door in need of a warm place to sleep to get it that way, but one night on his sofa, where I’d suddenly developed night terrors and epilepsy, and that puppy was running like a Mercedes the next day. It was awesome.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Sleep, Night

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.31, Macmillan

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• I still have night terrors about things happening to my son. The worst things cross your mind when you care so much. I keep them at bay as best I can, and it's a struggle for me not to just do everything for him.

  Corey Taylor

  Struggle, Memorable, Son

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