Dorothy Parker Quotes

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

I had nightmares after being with the national team. You shouldn't have things like that.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

I had an experience a few years ago where I was on a plane in which one of the engines went out. I couldn't even remember my name. I was just repeating the word no over and over.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

If a car came through a window anywhere near me, I'd be freaking out for three days!

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I shudder at the image they would piece together.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.

If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.

I think when your imagination goes to work, and when you're first bullied, you feel like you're going to die. School becomes a war zone, and you can't function.

I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

I shudder when relating it.

When you're traumatized, you pick out one thing you remember more than anything else.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep twenty-three different ways.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.