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Nightmare is fear given shape, sometimes by sleep and sometimes by action without vision. In these quotes, nightmare appears through imagined misfortunes that never happened and through the warning that action without vision becomes a nightmare. Some lines expose the mind's ability to suffer from futures that never arrive. Others show that practical activity without direction can become dangerous rather than productive. The collection treats nightmare as both psychological and moral. Fear can invent suffering in advance, while blind energy can create real suffering afterward. A nightmare therefore asks for both calm and vision: calm enough to test imagined disaster, vision enough to guide action toward a humane end. Read this topic when anxiety or urgency takes over, and let these quotes help you wake into clearer judgment before fear writes the story. Let nightmare lose power when fear is tested by vision, evidence, and calm action.