Nightmare Quotes - Page 6

• No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Procrastination, Long, Tasks

  Charles Baudelaire (1956). “The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters”

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• I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

  Harry Redknapp

  Soccer, Football, Sitting

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• He stopped when he heard Wellsie's voice coming out of the study. "… some kind of nightmare. I mean, Tohr, he was terrified… No, he fudged when I asked him what it was, and I didn't press. I think it's time he sees Havers. Yes… UAH-Hugh. He should meet Wrath first. Okay. I love you, myhellren . What? God, Tohr, I feel the same way. I don't know how we ever lived without him. He is such a blessing.

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Mean, Blessing

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1248, Penguin

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• What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

  Johnny Ramistella

  People, Smoking, Might

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• The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

  Oliver Stone

  Sweat, Worst Nightmares, Vietnam

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• As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Reality, Skulls, Mind

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• I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Hilarious, Mother

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• Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.

  Beth Orton

  Hurt, Kids, Therapy

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• In high school I was good at math and everybody wanted me to do something with that - mathematics or engineering - which was a nightmare scenario for me. Meeting other artists and going to punk rock shows at that age, there was a feeling of freedom and community that I wanted to partake in.

  Laura Owens

  School, Math, Artist

  Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.

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• Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

  Aleksey Igudesman

  Beautiful, Littles, Firsts

  "Can Classical Musicians Be Funny?". Interview with Graham Meyer, www.chicagomag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

  Roselyne Bosch

  Crazy, Tragedy, Generations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

  Jonas Salk

  Dream, Dreams And Nightmares, Reach For Your Dreams

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• Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Wall, Bed

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.165, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.

  Eliphas Levi

  Children, Blood, Vampire

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• Some people are motivated by visualizing themselves reaching their dream. Some people are motivated by the nightmare of not reaching it. Do both.

  Robert G. Allen

  Dream, People, Motivated

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• I just like the child's nightmares and therapy, once an experience has found the light of day I'm no longer under its spell, I'm free to tell it. I hope in telling honestly I can in some way help other people to do so also.

  Beth Orton

  Children, Helping Others, Light

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.

  Antonin Artaud

  Struggle, Night, People

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.486, Univ of California Press

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• Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Dream, Ignorance

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• You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

  Tony Burton

  Motivational, Sports, Dream

  "Rocky's Tony Burton Dead at 78: Sylvester Stallone Remembers His Onscreen Trainer With Sweet Instagram" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Coal is my worst nightmare.

  Steven Chu

  Worst Nightmares, Energy, Coal

  "Nightmare On Coal Street". www.desmogblog.com. December 19, 2008.

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• If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don't, then I don't. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I'll pretty much say to a guy, 'I like you - let's go hang out.' But my friends are like, 'You can't do that! You have to string this guy along.' And I'm just like, 'No! I won't! I just want to go on the date!' It's a nightmare - I definitely haven't figured it out yet.

  Emma Watson

  Boyfriend, I Like You, Kissing

  "Emma Watson Reveals Her 'Harry Potter' Crush" by Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. June 28, 2011.

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• We are living in a science-fiction nightmare where children are gasping for breath on bad-air days because somebody gave money to a politician. And my children and the kids of millions of other Americans can no longer go fishing and eat their catch because somebody gave money to a politician.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Children, Kids, Air

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• You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.

  David Grossman

  Reality, Cliche, Resolution

  "David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone.

  Laini Taylor

  Dream, Long, Giving

  Laini Taylor (2012). “Days of Blood and Starlight: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.326, Hachette UK

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• Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

  Anthony Giddens

  Kings, Luther, Audience

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