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Neil Gaiman Quotes

Total quotes: 90
“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
“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
“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
“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
“You hurt. It’s okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
— Neil Gaiman, Endless Nights(Sandman)
Tagged: Pain, hurt, Encouragement
“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
“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
“Coraline Jones: How can you walk away from something and then come towards it?

Cat: Walk around the world.

Coraline Jones: Small world.”
— Coraline Jones (voice), Coraline
Tagged: round earth, Small world, going and coming
“Coraline Jones: I can see you don't have button eyes, but... if you're the same cat, how can you talk?

Cat: I just can.”
— Coraline Jones (voice), Coraline
Tagged: talking Cats
“Get thee behind me, demon. [He opens the door and motions to Crowley] After you.”
— Aziraphale, Good Omens, Miniseries: In the Beginning
Tagged: Demons, Get thee behind me
“‘You’ve a good heart,’ she told him.
'Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go.’ Then she shook her head. ‘But mostly, it’s not.”
— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tagged: postive attribute, Kind Heart, Kind People, Encouragement, Motivational, Opinion, Beliefs
“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: Perfect Words
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
Tagged: fragile, Heartbreak, Dreams, Love
“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.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Tagged: moving, Home, Happiness
“ If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”
— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
Tagged: Books, Reading, Knowledge
“It’s part of growing up, I suppose… You always have to leave something behind you.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
Tagged: Growing Up, Moving On
“You don’t look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.”
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Tagged: insults, Stupid, Idiot
“You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.”
— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Tagged: Hearts, kindness, Safe
“I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.”
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
Tagged: destination, Dating, boys
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Tagged: Books, Reading, Escapism
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