Nightmare Description Quotes

Flora Brimm was a Pinkerton agent's worst nightmare, the type of woman who would niggle her way into his thoughts at the oddest moments, work her way into his heart, and all the while irritate him beyond description. ~ Kathleen Y'Barbo

It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare."
"And what is that nightmare, Craig?"
"Life. ~ Ned Vizzini

It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare. ~ Donna Tartt

I knew words were like chains, they held me back ... the act of description taints the description. ~ John Fowles

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. ~ Alan Keyes

To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim. ~ Reza Negarestani

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand. ~ Anne Enright

Man is about to be deprived of a great pole - work routine. The nightmare of capitalist society is unemployment; the nightmare of cybernetic society will be employment. ~ John Fowles

Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. ~ Camille

It's hard to wake from a nightmare when the nightmare is real. ~ Kristin Cashore

He was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it ~ Nalini Singh

Sisters ruin everything. It's in their job description. ~ Christopher Titus

Nightmare and dream both are not real, but I do always love my nightmare; because it offers me gratitude while the latter makes me disappointed. ~ M.F. Moonzajer

Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare. ~ Rachel Cohn

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. ~ Hugo Gernsback

Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare. ~ Arno Hintjens

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare' ~ Anthony Giddens

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description. ~ Robert Genn

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description. ~ Kirsten Dunst

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

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

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare. ~ Voltaire

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror. ~ Mike Tyson

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. ~ Arthur Koestler

I feel that I'm solid at description. ~ Christopher Bollen

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am the nightmare. ~ Marie Lu

The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mountain, and if you are caught up in the description, as most people are, then you will never see the mountain ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat. ~ Joe Flanigan

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare. ~ Bertrand Russell

You can't put an end to your nightmare by continuing to sleep! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some people think [Ted] Cruz is just as bad of an electoral nightmare down the ballot as [Donald] Trump. ~ Dalia Mogahed

Addiction is not a fact of life but a description about how we are choosing to live. ~ Paul Pearsall

They presented a description of the world to all of us which was very limited and narrow. ~ Frederick Lenz

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare. ~ Charles Bukowski

Going bald is a mohawk-having man's worst nightmare. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A nightmare, I'd told Tamlin.
I was the nightmare. ~ Sarah J. Maas

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming. ~ Jill Scott

It was a nightmare. The band had to tour Greenland by bus. ~ Fred Schneider

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past. ~ Max Gallo

We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

My job description is ... being enthusiastic. ~ Dhani Harrison

The power we call God defies description. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

We live in a description of reality. ~ Jean Houston

Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare. ~ Jill Scott

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness. ~ Mary Gaitskill

Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare? ~ Kevin R. Stone

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal. ~ Jim Butcher

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations. ~ Boris Sidis

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping. ~ Oscar Wilde

When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare. ~ Marie Helvin

Professional is not a label you give yourself - it's a description you hope others will apply to you. ~ David Maister

History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. ~ James Joyce

Good morning, nightmare! ~ Ljupka Cvetanova

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. ~ Karl Marx

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights. ~ Aharon Appelfeld

Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare. ~ Anthony Liccione

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our constitution works. ~ Gerald R. Ford

Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real. ~ Thomas Ligotti

Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over. ~ Israel Shamir

Charm is that extra quality that defies description. ~ Alfred Lunt

The nightmare of the Cold War was nuclear weapons in the hands of an irrational person. I don't want to live through that nightmare. ~ Rudy Giuliani

I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. ~ Dan Aykroyd

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare. ~ John Crowley

I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people. ~ Emma Caulfield

A nightmare becomes a nightmare when you start to believe it will never end. ~ Laura Van Den Berg

Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close. ~ Tori Amos

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description. ~ Carlos Castaneda

Please God, when I open my eyes, make this nightmare disappear. ~ Catherine Jane Fisher

The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid. ~ Bryant H. McGill

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one. ~ Nathan Englander

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare. ~ Scott Westerfeld

Juliette.
I can't control a nightmare, but in my waking moments her name is the only reminder I will permit myself. ~ Tahereh Mafi

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story. ~ Stephen King

'Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me. ~ Mike Nichols

The end of shows are a nightmare for everybody because there is so much pressure to satisfy everyone, which of course you can't do. ~ Scott Bakula

Serving humanity is fulfilling the description of Christ ~ Sunday Adelaja

Really, a nightmare just really has to evoke some sort of, we call it, dysphoric emotion or something uncomfortable. You could be sad, you could be unhappy; you could be scared, anxious. But traditionally, the definition is you have to awaken from this nightmare. ~ Shelby Harris

This was worse than a retched nightmare. It was the nightmare of real things, the fallen wonder of the world ~ Don DeLillo

History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality
if only for an instant
by means of creation. ~ Octavio Paz

God doesn't call people to a job description, He calls people to Himself and His mission in the world. ~ Louie Giglio

Coal is My Worst Nightmare. ~ Steven Chu

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. ~ Bernie Sanders

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me. ~ Hugh Prather

Awoke from nightmare could be a relief. ~ Toba Beta

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being. ~ Sri Chinmoy

This could be our greatest nightmare. But maybe, intead this would be our only hope of salvation. ~ Claudia Gray

People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away. ~ Henry Selick

Damn description, it is always disgusting. ~ Lord Byron

'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way. ~ Amy Lee

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation. ~ Mario Cuomo

When philosophers try to understand consciousness, much of what they claim is not conceptual analysis at all, though it may be shopped under that description. ~ Patricia Churchland

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world. ~ Jennifer Saunders

There is such longing in me for music. A closed piano is my biggest nightmare. ~ Pallavi Sareen

Must have been some kind a nightmare."
"Yeah," I answer, my usual calm, vacant voice returning. "Can't wait to wake up. ~ K.A. Tucker

In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music. ~ Paul Gauguin

It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description. ~ Alan W. Watts