Neil Gaiman Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Stardust”, p.97, Hachette UK

• People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Believe, Responsibility

• I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Believe, Long

• And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.

  Neil Gaiman

  Atheist, Rocks, Self

• There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hate, Believe, Odin

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods”, p.100, Hachette UK

• You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Horse, Believe

• I think most things are pretty magical, and that it's less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Stopping, Matter

• If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Thinking, People

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