Tom Robbins Quotes

I used to be terrified of a particular film - I can't remember what it was called. It was set in a forest, and there was lots of oil coming from trees. And someone fell, and ever since then... Oh, and I also dream about my teeth, losing a tooth, which I think means that you want control back.

That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.

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.

It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal.

Nightmares are releases.

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

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

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 mean, we've all had those dreams where, you know, we try to cry out and our voice won't come.

I have quite a lot of anxiety dreams.

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

I have a lot of nightmares.

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

I don't like to talk about that McCanles affair. It gives me a queer shiver whenever I think of it, and sometimes I dream about it and wake up in a cold sweat.

As much as I dream, I have nightmares.

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

Somehow, she had grown into a woman in between the fall of kings and collapse of worlds. Once she had been terrified of change. Then she had been terrified of losing Elend. Now her fears were more nebulous - worries of what would come after she was gone, worries of what would happen to the people of the empire if she failed.

Fear's what puts dreams to sleep.

Sixteen moons, Sixteen years Sixteen of your deepest fears Sixteen times you dreamed my tears Falling, Falling through the years

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

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

The fear's as bad as falling.

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.