65 Movie Quotes about Nightmares (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Sep 11, 2025

Memorable quotes about nightmares, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 Ah, such dreams I had. Such strange and troubled drunken dreams.

Fredric March as Philip Ii Of Macedon in Alexander the Great (1956)

22 I dreamed of death. And when I awoke, I didn't know whose death it was.

Fredric March as Philip Ii Of Macedon in Alexander the Great (1956)

23 Oh, I'm so sorry. You musn't get frightened. I have awful nightmares. I guess it's my conscience bothering me. Good night!

Robert Montgomery as Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps (1937)

24 All my life, I've had a dreadful fear of premature burial. I awaken sometimes screaming with nightmares in which I see myself buried alive, waking to find myself entombed, without air stifling, and no escape.

Katherine Emery as Mrs. Mary St. Aubyn in Isle of the Dead (1945)

25 I was hoping you'd cry out in your sleep. Then I would have bitten your head off to silence you.

Gillian Anderson as Moro in Princess Mononoke

26 I guess I knew it would happen... In the night, in my sleep... dreams like knives. Always, you were bad. Always, you were running away.

Humphrey Bogart as Andrew Morton in Knock on Any Door (1949)

27 I had this horrible nightmare. I dreamed I was in a Western. I was being chased by all these Indians and a bear.

Michael J. Fox as Marty Mcfly in Back to the Future Part III

28 I used to number the months by a battle, a pestilence, a famine. Now it's all one long nightmare.

Rossana Podestà as Helen Of Troy in Helen of Troy (1956)

29 Oh, I was just having a wonderful dream. -You weren't dreaming, by any chance, that you were Superman? -That's exactly what I was, Lois. And I was flying you through the air. -That wasn't a dream, Mr. Kent. As far as I'm concerned, it was a nightmare.

Noel Neill as Lois Lane; Kirk Alyn as Clark Kent in Superman (1948)

30 You still wake up sometimes, don't you? Wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs