Neil Gaiman Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

• Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Mind

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

• People who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Believe, Somewhere Else

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.63, A&C Black

• 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

  Life, Happiness, Hurt

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

• Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

  "The Sandman: Fables & Reflections". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1993.

• It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, People, Tragedy

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.30, Harper Collins

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

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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

• You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Inspirational Life, Lifetime

  "Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1989.

• I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Stars, Mean

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

• 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

• Then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Life, Smile

  "The Sandman: The Kindly Ones". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

• You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Real, Odd

• It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning, and it is astonishing how fragile that can be.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Morning, Bed

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.81, A&C Black

• That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Memories, Cat

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.48, Hachette UK

• Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Football, Islands

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.188, A&C Black

• As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Long, Water

• I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Dark, Reality

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

• Lives are snowflakes - unique in detail, forming patterns we have seen before, but as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close inspection.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Mistake, Mean

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 19, 2001.

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