Neil Gaiman Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Yesterday, Worry

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

• I have a feeling,’ he said, ‘I have a feeling that we were meant to be together. That we have fought the good fight, side by side, in the past or in the future, I do not know. I am a rational man, but I have learned the value of a good companion, and from the moment I clapped eyes on you, I knew I trusted you as well as I do myself. Yes, I want you with me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Fighting, Past

  Neil Gaiman, Steven-Elliot Altman, Brian Stableford (2003). “Shadows Over Baker Street”, p.15, Del Rey

• Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Pain, Long, People

• I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my power to frustrate your plans and devices.' And then she added, with feeling, 'Idiot.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girl, Giving, Feelings

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

• Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brother, Pain, Men

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

• She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Silly, Doors, Feelings

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.66, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

  Neil Gaiman

  Spiritual, Hands, Feelings

• There's definitely a feeling with a short story that it's pure story telling. You're not really worried about theme. You're not going to stay with the characters long enough to live your life with them. And you have different kinds of relationships with them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Character, Long, Live Your Life

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

• With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Reading, Years

• My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Reality

  "Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

• Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and white and a dozen different shades of green tiles which make a beautiful picture if you stand back far enough. All the little red squares are true - true things, true places, true feelings. But the red squares aren't the picture. All the rest of it is lies and stories, often within the same sentence.

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Country, Lying

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

• It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Notebook, Light, Blood

  Source: www.npr.org

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