Sandman Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Choices, Path, Sometimes

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• Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, Dust, Shadow

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• To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lost Love, Giving, Devil

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• You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

  Neil Gaiman

  Forever

  Neil Gaiman (2011). “The Sandman Vol. 4: Season of Mists”, p.2, DC

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• I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Real, Moving

  "The Sandman: Season of Mists". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1990 - 1991.

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• Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

  Neil Gaiman

  Brother, Book, Garden

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1992 - 1993.

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• And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

  Neil Gaiman

  Goodbye, Moral, Should

  "I Woke Up And One Of Us Was Crying". Comics series by Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #36, A Game of You, November 1991 - May 1992.

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• I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Lasts, Looks

  "Season of Mists (The Sandman #21: Prologue)". Book by Neil Gaiman, December 1990.

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• It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Clothes, Half

  "The Sandman". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, January 1989-March 1996.

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• I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wonder, Yeah, Dear

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• I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Editors, Scripts

  "The Sandman Companion". Book by Hy Bender, 1999.

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• When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Thinking

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1992 - 1993.

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• And sometimes when you fall... you fly...

  Neil Gaiman

  Beautiful, Fall, Sometimes

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• One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

  Neil Gaiman

  I've Learned, Knows, One Thing

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• We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Tired, Kids

  "The Sandman" by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman #16: "Lost Hearts"), January 1989 - November 2015.

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• You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

  Neil Gaiman

  Farewell, Blow, Grieving

  "Sandman Special: The Song of Orpheus". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1991.

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• The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Decision, Lord

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• I think I've got 12... Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Plastic-Man, Green Lantern, Sandman, The Justice League, The Atom Legion of Superheroes and Teen Titans.... Just about all of their top titles.

  Stan Lee

  Men, Thinking, League

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stupid, People, Want

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• Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to do with desire, and sometimes it's partly to do with death, as well. It's also very often something to do with delirium.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Love Is, Desire Love

  Source: www.naylor.net

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• I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

  Neil Gaiman

  Law, Numbers, Treats

  "Sandman #63: 'The Kindly Ones: 7'". DC Comics series by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• Give the devil his due.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Revenge, Giving, Devil

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.96, Wordsworth Editions

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• Neil [Gaiman, creator of the comic Sandman, featuring the Amos-based character Delirium] believes that faeries have gone beyond cool. They've transcended cool. I just think alternate realities make you a good writer. If your work is any more than one dimension, you believe in faeries. I'm sure I'll start thinking now about all the people I know who don't believe, that I quite like. We can still go have a pint. Not the Chardonnay, though.

  Tori Amos

  Believe, Character, Reality

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• Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.

  Neil Gaiman

  Looks, Catchers, Holden

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• It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.

  DJ Spooky

  Mistake, Breathing, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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