The Terrors of the Night Quotes

“His soul hath left his body; for why, it is flying after these airy incorporate courtly promises, and glittering painted allurements, which when they vanish to nothing, it likewise vanished with them”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“A dream is nothing else but the echo of our conceits in the day”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“Dreaming is no other than groaning, while sleep our surgeon hath us in cure”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy, which the day hath left undigested; or an after-feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“A solitary man in his bed is like a poor bed-red lazar lying by the highway-side unto whose displayed wounds and sores a number of stinging flies do swarm for pastance and beverage. His naked wounds are his inward heart-griping woes, the wasps and flies his idle wandering thoughts; who to that secret smarting pain he hath already do add a further sting of impatience and new-lance his sleeping griefs and vexations.”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“it scarce hath been heard there were ever two men that dreamed alike”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night