Nightmare Quotes

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
Eminem

Dream, Almost, Turning

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.
Paulo Coelho

Life, Love, Saying

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
James A. Baldwin

Love, Soul, Against

Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Alfred Hitchcock

Give, Same, Pleasure

I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
Michael Caine

Million, Dollars, Bourgeois

I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.
Ric Flair

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire

Work, Time, Down

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac

Men, Best, Land

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
Conan O'Brien

Life, Funny, Why

If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide.
Steven Gerrard

Bad, Game, Play

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Bad, Reality, Ourselves

I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare.
Kate Moss

End, Said, Around

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
Alan Rickman

Film, Sit, Watch

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
Louis C. K.

Life, Character, Fight

I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.
Anthony Hopkins

Mind, Dream, Lives

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.
John Mayer

Dating, Woman, Guilt

My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
Barbra Streisand

Home, Help, Sick

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.
John Mayer

Work, Hate, Another

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Jo Brand

Sad, Person, Old

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.
Jonathan Safran Foer

Great, Parenting, Real

I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
Lenny Kravitz

Real, Put, Million

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
Ellie Goulding

Music, Live, Away

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.
Gerald R. Ford

Long, National, Fellow

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
David Icke

Dad, Children, Down

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
John Cusack

Time, Real, Through

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.
Gwen Stefani

Time, Best, Through

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.
Tommy Lee Jones

I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare.
Eldridge Cleaver

Struggle, Dream, American

When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.
Jason Reitman

Loved, Film, Street

History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Philip Roth

History, Trying, Awake

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