Quotes & Sayings About Worst Nightmares

... those eyes. they were like the bottom of the sea, like my worst nightmares and darkest dreams. — Mimi Strong

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream. — Latrell Sprewell

In nightmares, we can't look into our own eyes except by indirection, perhaps because we fear discovering that therein lie the worst monsters plaguing us. — Dean Koontz

I'm an actor/singer who moves well ... sometimes. I'm actually a great mover but not every style fits my body and a dance call back is my worst nightmare. — Erica Schroeder

Coal is My Worst Nightmare. — Steven Chu

Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends. — Nancy Gibbs

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess. — Stephen King

Donald Trump says he's President Obama's worst nightmare. That's not true. Having to make a decision is Obama's worst nightmare. — Jay Leno

90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare. — Danny Dyer

Being confronted with one's worst nightmares is both a way of testing your mental fortitude and seeing where your heart lies. — Rachel Hawkins

I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor's best friend and Wall Street's worst nightmare. — Jonathan Clements

Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not! — Randy Orton

If i can't be your true love, i want to be your worst nightmare. — Ariel Seraphino

alien meant in a world where members of his own species stitched themselves together into colony minds, or summoned their own worst nightmares back from the Pleistocene to run the stock market. — Peter Watts

I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child. — J. Aleksandr Wootton

Take your worst nightmares, and put my face to them. — Tommy Lynn Sells

Oz- where all your worst nightmares come true — Danielle Paige

Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open. — Florence Welch

The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories. — Moonshine Noire

Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food
and love, but they were pleasant rather
than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things
like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it
for a baby goat. I'd have
nightmares of other islands
stretching away from mine, infinities
of islands, islands spawning islands,
like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs
of islands, knowing that I had to live
on each and every one, eventually,
for ages, registering their flora,
their fauna, their geography. — Elizabeth Bishop

And everybody dreams about vampires; we grow up dreaming about them. They're the first and worst monster that lives under everybody's bed. — Robin McKinley

My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them. — Philippos Syrigos

You're not the only one who's loyal and decent, Ture. It's why I won't betray Darling. He wouldn't betray me and I know it. When someone really loves you, they find a way to get to you, even in the darkest night, against all odds. Through the worst nightmares, they are there, holding your hand. They're there to stand with you to the end. I don't just believe that. I know it. - Zarya Starska — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

See them little scales there, how they're closed up tight like window shutters? Underneath 'em are the seeds - flat little things, flimsy as a baby's figernails - with a point at one end. If a fire comes along, the heat is gonna cause those scales to peel back and drop their seeds, while the ground is still scorching hot. Then that tiny seed is gonna burrow in and take root. I was nine years old the summer Freeda and Winnalee Malone rushed across our lives like red-hot flames, peeling back the shutters that sat over our hearts and our minds, setting free our sweetest dreams and our worst nightmares. — Sandra Kring

I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit. — Jeffery Deaver

Best to immunize your consciousness from any thoughts that are startling and dreadful so that we can all go on conspiring to survive and reproduce as paradoxical beings - puppets that can walk and talk all by themselves. At worst keep your startling and dreadful thoughts to yourself. Hearken well: None of us wants to hear spoken the exact anxieties we keep locked up inside ourselves. Smother that urge to go spreading news of your pain and nightmares around town. — Thomas Ligotti

My best vacation is your worst nightmare. — Jim Bridwell

In my life I've been very lucky to travel around the world and see students and teachers in nearly two dozen countries - but the most awe-inspiring experience I've ever had was two years after 9/11 when I had the chance to attend a conference in Manhattan and personally meet many of the heroic teachers who persevered under conditions that in our worst nightmares we could never have imagined. In my opinion there's not been nearly enough written about those teachers, and I hope that changes soon. — Tucker Elliot

The worst nightmare in the world is a radical Islamic regime with a weapon of mass destruction. — Lindsey Graham

My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read. — Barbara Kingsolver

Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about."
Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit. — Orson Scott Card

It seems to me that after someone sweeps across your life like a red-hot flame, peeling back the shutters that sat over your heart and your mind and setting free your sweetest dreams or your worst nightmares, after things cool down you've got two choices. You can either slip back into your old self, your old life, tucking those things you were too scared to look at back into hiding, or you can keep those parts of yourself out until you get so used to them that they don't scare you anymore and they just become a part of who you are. — Sandra Kring

Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare. — Glenn Greenwald

Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing. — Ethan Hawke

The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope. — Lindsey Graham

Darian murdered them in cold blood. That's a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable. — Shannon Duffy

Of all the things I'd imagined in nightmares and dreams of dead things, the woman who gripped my leg was the worst and my last. — Brian Hodge

Love is the greatest of dreams, yet the worst of nightmares. — William Shakespeare

There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare — Beth Comstock

Weakness :
Hang on To Your Worst Nightmares.
Petra Hermans — Petra Hermans

I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been ... overlooked; and then that horrific interval between realizing what you've overlooked and turning your head to look back at what's been right there all along, the whole time ... — David Foster Wallace

Stand-up would be my worst nightmare. — Steven Pasquale

What the fuck is that?" one of the cops yells. "I'm the magic Negro from all your worst nightmares," Cyrus laughs. "Now scatter!" He swirls his arms like he's gonna shoot a fireball at them and they take off, tearing through the ranks of NYCOD agents and disappearing around the corner. "I like this dude," Riley whispers. Cyrus — Daniel Jose Older

Love can be the greatest of dreams and the worst of nightmares. — William Shakespeare

When you get into politics, you find that all your worst nightmares about it turn out to be true, and the people who are attracted to large concentrations of power are precisely the ones who should be kept as far away from it as possible. — Ken Livingstone

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of. — Romain Grosjean