“ The broken pink pillars, in the half-light, might have been waiting to fall down on him: the pool, covered with green scum, its steps torn away and hanging by one rotting clamp, to close over his head… Malcolm Lowry
“ Nightmare and dream both are not real, but I do always love my nightmare; because it offers me gratitude while the latter makes me disappointed. M.F. Moonzajer
“ ... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter," she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse. John Katzenbach
“ In the daylight we knowwhat’s gone is gone,but at night it’s different.Nothing gets finished,not dying, not mourning; Margaret Atwood
“ Vision with action and commitment can change the world, but without action it's just a dream, and without commitment it's a nightmare. Farshad Asl
“ He asked, looking at her dark-rimmed eyes, You do not sleep?She shivered. No. I do not want to sleep any more. I sleep too much already. It is so cold, where Quincy sends me in my sleep. Deep into the… Evangeline Walton
“ All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in a brighter life. In the midst of a hymn, God had disappeared. It was like waking… Denis Johnson
“ It was to apologize, and apologizing means he remembers what happened, and that means being trapped in a nightmare that’s already come true. Beth Revis
“ Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left.There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many pe… G.K. Chesterton
“ It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.And what is that nightmare, Craig?Life. Ned Vizzini
“ Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock
“ Therefore I see no wrong in riding with the Nightmare to-night; she whinnies to me from the rocking tree-tops and the roaring wind; I will catch her and ride her through the awful air. Woods and weeds… G.K. Chesterton
“ No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare. Charles Baudelaire
“ Maldonado's face was ghastly. 'That' she said, pointing below the bed where the cat lurked, 'and that' - pointing to what lay on the floor - 'prove it was no dream. Do dreams leave marks behind them?'… Cornell Woolrich
