Top 48 Sandman Neil Gaiman Quotes
#1. I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud
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#3. I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.
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#4. But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.
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#5. 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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#7. Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.
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#8. Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.
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#9. I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.
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#10. I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of stars.
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#11. There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness ...
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#12. To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.
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#13. For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.
Susanna Clarke
#14. How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?
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#15. All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other matters,
You can be me when I'm gone
Flowers gathered in the morning,
Afternoon they blossom on,
Still are withered in the evening,
You can be me when I'm gone.
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#16. Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless ... as everything created has an end.
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#17. We are all improved by the glow of memory.
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#18. Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.
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#19. The joy of doing 'Sandman' was doing a comic and telling people, 'No, it has an end,' at a time when nobody thought you could actually get to the end and stop doing a comic that people were still buying just because you'd finished.
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#20. I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?
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#21. I am the keeper of the library, Matthew. Without it I am nothing. Were it to be destroyed again, it would destroy me as well.
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#22. The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.
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#23. The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.
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#24. Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
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#25. Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
Tamora Pierce
#26. You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.
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#27. The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.
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#28. What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?
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#29. From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.
Jim Lee
#30. Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?
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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. For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
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#33. One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].
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#34. Any view of things that is not strange, is false.
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#35. I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.
Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.
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#36. [Dream] I do not want a grape.
[Desire] I could make you want one.
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#37. 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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#38. They talk of me going around buying souls, like a fishwife come market day, never stopping to ask themselves why. I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No. They belong to themselves ... they just hate to face up to it.
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#39. One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.
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#40. People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.
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#41. I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?
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#42. Is this real? Or is it just my imagination?"
"If you tell me what the difference is I might be able to tell you.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.
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#46. 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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#47. Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.
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