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Neil Gaiman Quotes

Total quotes: 150
“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”
— Neil Gaiman, Smoke
Tagged: Growing Up, Childhood, Adulthood
“I’ll find you. Don’t worry. Just be on your own and I’ll find you.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Tagged: Trust
“Oh, monsters are scared, said Lettie. That’s why they’re monsters.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Bravery, Cowardice, monsters
“You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”
— Neil Gaiman, A quote by Neil Gaiman
Tagged: Reality, explanations, Closure, Moments, Unforgettable
“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Tagged: Memories
“Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.”
— Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman on Tumblr
Tagged: Books, Advice, Readers, Bibliophile, Passion, Reading
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: True Colors, Character of a Person, Complicated person
“Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness...”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Kindly Ones
Tagged: Loving Deeply, How Love Affects You
“You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Tagged: Trust, Self-Trust, Self-Reliance, Independence, Alone, self control, Self Confidence
“I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if others see us reading, then we learn, we exercise our imaginations. We show others that reading is a good thing.”
— Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming
Tagged: Obligation, Responsibility, Reading, Books, Imaginations, Best Reading Quotes
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Tagged: Learning, Curiosity, Truth, Life, Knowledge
“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.”
— Neil Gaiman, A quote by Neil Gaiman
Tagged: Dreams, Reality, Memories, hopes
“I loved to sleep with the window open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open the window and put my head on the pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Sleep, rainy nights, Rain, Wind, Nature
“I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the
Tagged: lost, Escapism, Stories, Books, Novels, Solitude, Adventure, Best Reading Quotes
“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Braveness, Courage, Bravery
“You strike me as a kind person. I hope your world is kind. By which I mean, I’ve heard we see the world not as it is but as we are. A saint sees a world of saints, a killer sees only murderers and victims.”
— Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
Tagged: People, human beings, Human Behavior, human actions, Person's Image, World, Society
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Motivational, strength, Fairytales, Powerful
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them… Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You
Tagged: Secret, Own World, Different world, Imagination
“He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.”
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel
Tagged: Future, fears, Scared, Expectations, Uncertainty, struggles
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
— Neil Gaiman, via YouTube
Tagged: Libraries, information, Librarian
“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Tagged: Home, Peace
“I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Tagged: Control, Walking Away, Holding Back, Happiness
“That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Vol. 10: The Wake
Tagged: Dreaming, lost, Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement, Optimism, Dream
“Adults follow paths. Children explore.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Adulthood, Children, Destiny, purpose
“What if everyone got what they wanted? What then?”
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
Tagged: Life, Choices
“You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Growing Up, Worth, Relevance, Life
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Happiness, Childhood, Innocence, Small Things
“Words save our lives, sometimes.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Tagged: Words, Salvation, Words Heal, words save, Lives, Inspirational, saving, Life
“If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Tagged: emotions, Getting Over Someone
“Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Memories, Recollection
“You hurt. It’s okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
— Neil Gaiman, Endless Nights(Sandman)
Tagged: Pain, hurt, Encouragement
“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Tagged: Heartbreak, Love
“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.”
— Neil Gaiman, You Versus a Blank Sheet of Paper: Neil Gaiman on Books and Writing
Tagged: book, Dream, Material, Adventure
“'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.'”
— Neil Gaiman, America Gods
Tagged: Love, romance, Missing A Lover
“Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do.Make good art.I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.”
— Neil Gaiman, Commencement Address at The University of the Arts Philadelphia, 2012
Tagged: Graduation, Commencement, Speech
“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they’ll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don’t know. She probably didn’t even know I was there. But I’ll always love her. All my life.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds’ End
Tagged: Familiarity, Comfort, Warmth, Feelings, emotions, Love
“You don't have a side anymore. Neither of us do. We're on our own side.”
— Crowley, Good Omens, Miniseries: The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives
Tagged: side, on our own
“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”
— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Tagged: Future, Time
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
— Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Tagged: admiration, Attraction, admiring someone, captivated
“As long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury
Tagged: Words, Life, lived, World, Remembered, mattered, Change the World, changed the world
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