Top 28 Quotes About The Graveyard Book
#1. Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.
Vincent Van Gogh
#2. Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.
Neil Gaiman
#3. Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
Richard Lugar
#4. The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.
Neil Gaiman
#5. We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.
Neil Gaiman
#6. Well, that is another hope gone. My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. That's a sentence I read in a book once, and I say it over to comfort myself whenever I'm disappointed in anything.
L.M. Montgomery
#7. It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#9. Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.
Benji Madden
#10. When you open your mouth to say something, it makes it real. The fact that you don't voice it means you're fighting it.You're not letting it matter enough to spill it out.
Katy Evans
#11. It's quite a library, anyway," she said, trying to sound upbeat. "I've begun to think of it as more graveyard than library. End of the line, you know. Where book-of-the-month club comes to die." As
Matthew J. Sullivan
#13. Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.
Carlos Fuentes
#14. I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.
Barbara Kingsolver
#16. If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#17. Once the worst had happened to you, all the rest was just stuff and absence.
Janet Fitch
#18. Rattle his bones
over the stones
its only a pauper
who nobody owns
Neil Gaiman
#19. The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.
Wallace D. Wattles
#20. I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.
Jack Nicholson
#21. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
Neil Gaiman
#22. It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.
David Riesman
#23. Beethoven was ugly too, and no woman ever loved him, and he was Beethoven! He didn't need to be loved in order to do what he did. He just needed to love and he did.
Jose Saramago
#24. A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard.
Malala Yousafzai
#26. Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records.
Wallace Stegner
#27. The good hate the badness of the wicked. The wicked hate the goodness of the good.
Anonymous
#28. Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.
Hilary Mantel