Source: The Forgotten Soldier
“Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.”
Variant: I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. 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.
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I lost all respect for him and myself, and lived in a nightmare.”
2014, Cited by Jesse Hamlin
The Sunset Limited (2006)
“Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!”
John Mulaney Stand-Up Monologue - SNL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mSGwndFMp8, 03 March 2019
Source: Political Testament (1949), p. 80
Context: We live in a nightmare of falsehoods, and there are few who are sufficiently awake and aware to see things as they are. Our first duty is to clear away illusions and recover a sense of reality. If war should come, it will do so on account of our delusions, for which our hag-ridden conscience attempts to find moral excuses. To recover a sense of reality is to recover the truth about ourselves and the world in which we live, and thereby to gain the power of keeping this world from flying asunder.
“We weren't happy. It was a nightmare, breaking the rules and all that.”
Everyone seemed to be having fun, but they were so taking many drugs they wouldn't know it anyway.
"Charlotte Rampling: In from the cold", in The Independent (25 March 2005) http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/charlotte-rampling-in-from-the-cold-529788.html.
