#nightmare

The wind blew through the window. The trousers swayed. Doubtless when they were on Mr. Craggs, the trousers looked splendid and went perfectly well together with his body. But like this, isolated in space, Mr. Cragg's trousers were nightmarish. The wind blew through the window. As they swayed, the trousers were alive. A shot, truncated, square creature consisting entirely of legs, belly and what went with them. And now it would get down and start walking among people and over people and grow and... ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#surrealistic #trousers #men

Don't you ever get tired of reading?" she asked. "You could hardly be called good company! Don't you know that, with women, you're supposed to make conversation?" she added; her half smile was perhaps meant to be ironic, though to Amedeo, who at that moment would have paid anything rather than give up his novel, it seemed downright threatening. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#lectophilia #mixed-marriages-never-work #reading #relationship-nightmare #run-away

Nightmares don't last. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#nightmares #time #life

Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. ↗

— Morris West

#creature #experiences #his #man #nightmare

I really like it when a bad dream doesn't scare you...it inspires you instead'. ↗

— Fwah Storm

#nightmares #sleep #dreams

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

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#inflict #mental #never #nightmare #ourselves

I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare. ↗

— Ric Flair

#every #i #man #nightmare #woman

I woke with sweat beading across my forehead and my hands balled into fists clutching the sheet over my eyes. The dreams. They were back. Haunting me relentlessly. I thought they were gone... I should've known better. (Rayne) ↗

— Kimberly Brockman

#haunting #nightmares #paranormal-romance #young-adult-fiction #dreams

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 #bad game #coverage #game #know

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#any #hang #i #like #nightmares