This particular quote is not a direct quote from
Shakespeare. The word "nightmare" only appears once in Shakespeare's plays and it is
not in a context anything like this quote. (This is according to a couple of sites
where you can search all of Shakespeare's works at once.)
I
think that you may be thinking of a famous line that is from Shakespeare and has a
somewhat similar meaning. It is from Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliloquy in Act
III, Scene 1 of Hamlet. In that passage, Hamlet
says
To sleep-
perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub!
For in that sleep of death what
dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal
coil
That sort of means the
same thing -- if you dream, you may have nightmares.
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