Dream Neil Gaiman Quotes

#1. So what I want to know is, when I'm asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I wake up? Or am I just dreaming I can fly?"
"When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget."
"But that's not fair!"
"No.

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#2. Do you know what Freud said about dreams of flying? It means you're really dreaming about having sex."

"Indeed? Tell me, then, what does it mean when you dream about having sex?

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#3. I will dream if I want to, I said, and my death is my own affair.

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#4. When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.

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#5. I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

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#6. I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.

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#7. Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?"
"No.

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#8. Love isn't quite desire ... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium ...

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#9. But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.

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#10. DREAM ! Dreams shape the world . Dreams create the world anew, every night. Do not dream the world the way it is now, in thrall to our feline masters and mistresses

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#11. A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)

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#12. I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

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#13. The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

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#14. Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

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#15. Ruislip, the Fop's opponent, resembled a bad dream one might have if one fell asleep watching sumo wrestling on the television with a Bob Marley record playing in the background. He was a huge Rastafarian who looked like nothing so much as an obese and enormous baby.

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#16. It is impossible, he had found, if you rule, to do only good, for you cannot build anything without tearing something down, and even he could not care about every life, every dream, every population of every world.

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#17. I love dreams. I know enough about them to know that dream logic is no story logic, and that you can rarely bring a dream back as a tale: it will have transformed from gold into leaves. from silk to cobwebs, on waking

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#18. I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?

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#19. A book is a dream you hold in your hands.

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#20. Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of you.

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#21. But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream ... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

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#22. And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the day but cannot be touched or remembered.

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#23. A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

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#24. You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly ... But - you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar ... Ask yourselves, all of you ... What power would hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of heaven?

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#25. What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?

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#26. She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble.

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#27. You'll see the heartbreak linger in my eyes, and dream of making me forget what came before you walked into the hallway of this house. Bringing a little summer in your glance, and with your smile. While

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#28. I miss you', he admitted.
'I'm here', she said.
'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here, when you're just a ghost of the past or a dream from another life, it's easier then.

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#29. I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I am lost in the darkness of a downcast heart. Dream or reality. Let it be decided tonight.

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#30. It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

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#31. Ohhh. Humanity, I Love You. You never cease to amaze me. This has been amusing, little ghost, and that was not something I expected. But every playtime must come to an end. This dream is over.
- "Playing House" From THE SANDMAN #12

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#32. One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

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#33. You're alive ... That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name.

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#34. That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

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#35. You are alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change.

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#36. Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"
Dream: "There isn't one."
Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was.

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#37. Delirium: Um. What's the name of the word for things not being the same always. You know. I'm sure there is one. Isn't there? There must be a word for it ... the thing that lets you know time is happening. Is there a word?
Dream: Change.
Delirium: ... I was afraid of that.

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#38. [Dream] I do not want a grape.
[Desire] I could make you want one.

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#39. It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.

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#40. Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.

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#41. In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything.

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#42. And in her dream Coraline saw that the sun had set and the stars were twinkling in the darkening sky. Coraline stood in the meadow, and she watched as the three children (two of them walking, one flying) went away from her across the grass, silver in the light of the huge moon.

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#43. Think of us as symbols - we're the dream that humanity creates to make sense of the shadows on the cave wall.

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#44. Behind them were the lights of the market, the lanterns and candles and witch-lights and fairy glitter, like a dream of the night sky brought down to earth.

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#45. I am the Dream of Cats, and I walk by myself.

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#46. Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

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