Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmarish, is that it's when you're really naked and can really face the things you don't face in reality, your darkest anxieties.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself.

I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid.

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.

I am the shadow on the moon at night/Filling your dreams to the brim with fright.

Everybody has a nightmare, and everybody apparently has falling dreams, and everybody has the drowning dream, and everybody has certain kinds of sexual manifestation dreams, as well as our stress dreams; I didn't study for the algebra test, I didn't study for my driving test, you know, all those dreams. I still have those dreams, and it's just such an interesting thing that our mind can turn against us, our own mind, you know we all have.

I just can't wake from these scary dreams.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

Sometimes I wake up laughing when I have a great dream. And sometimes I have nightmares - and I hate them.

I've had sleep paralysis.

I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at night, and so it was a dream that happened a lot, and that's what frightened me.

My adult life is filled with the things horror movies are made of.

I have a brother who is afraid to go to sleep, he dreams he's working.

Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

This city belongs to ghosts, to murderers, to sleepwalkers. Where are you, in what bed, in what dream?

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

I do keep up at night. I try not to let my mind go to extremes in the middle of the night because it would be better to turn all that stuff into dreams; it would be better if I was sleeping, because dreams become good metaphors for what's really going on inside of you.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.