#nightmare

It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream of something outside that has got to come in. The witch, like the masked dancers, has form, but this is simply power, a force exerted on a door, an influence that drifted after me upstairs and pressed against windows. ↗

— Graham Greene

#nightmares #dreams

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 Rivers

#back #because #big #camped #days

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#constant #doing #exposed #had #i

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#being #compound #doing #exposed #had

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

— Tommy Lee Jones

#face #nightmare #place #very #world

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. ↗

— Florence King

#american #known #lost #meaning #mind

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

— Philip Roth

#awake #history #i #i am #nightmare

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

#been #best #come #diaries #going

Plans never go as planned, ever; that’s just how life is. People spend way too much time dreaming about a future they should be having more nightmares warning them against. But that doesn't mean you should let those bad dreams scare you away; all those nightmares want is respect. If you give them that, they’ll give you the space you need. Unless, of course, they’re the type of nightmares that have an appetite, then you’re fucked. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#death #dreams #fear #future #growing-up

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness. ↗

— Merrill Markoe

#every #happiness #life #moment #nightmare