Quotes with nightmare

  • 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.
  • My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

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  • Toni Morrison A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Thomas Carlyle All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • William S. Burroughs America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Barbara Mikulski College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason During the Cold War, workers proudly contributed to national defense, but the carelessness and haste in handling toxic waste created a nightmare of pollution for subsequent generations.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • James Joyce History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Malcolm X I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.
    The Ballot or the Bullet (1964)
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Barbra Streisand 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
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Brigitte Nielsen My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • James Baldwin 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 Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Oliver Stone 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
    American writer and filmmaker (1946 - )
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Charles Baudelaire 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
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Ban Ki-moon We must eliminate all nuclear weapons in order to eliminate the grave risk they pose to our world. This will require persistent efforts by all countries and peoples. A nuclear war would affect everyone, and all have a stake in preventing this nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Octavio Paz Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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