Sandman Quotes

• 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

  Inspiring, Dream, Memories

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• 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.

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• Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stories, Never Trust, Storyteller

  "Fables & Reflections (The Sandman, Book 6)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August – October 1991, June – August 1992, June 1993.

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• But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Heart, Desire

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Graduation, Stupid, Mean

  "The Sandman. #36: I Woke Up And One Of Us Was Crying". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1992.

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• 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.

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• There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness...

  Neil Gaiman

  Woods, Steps, Madness

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• 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.

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• Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

  Neil Gaiman

  Views, Strange

  Neil Gaiman (1993). “The Sandman”

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• Delirium: 'What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?' Dream: 'There isn't one.' Delirium: 'Oh. I thought maybe there was.'

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Names, Long

  "Sandman: Brief Lives: 3". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love Is, Desire

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• I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, World, Judgment

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• It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

  Neil Gaiman

  Truth, Science, Fool

  Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg (2006). “The absolute sandman”

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• For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Release, Ends, Abomination

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• I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Blessed, Talking

  "The Sandman: Dream Country". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1990.

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• When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Wakes You, Remember

  "Brief Lives (The Sandman, Book 7)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, September 1992 – May 1993.

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• The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

  Neil Gaiman

  Getting What You Want, Wanted, Want

  "Dream Country (The Sandman, Book 3)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, July – October 1990.

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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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• It's astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into, if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.

  Neil Gaiman

  Work Out, Assuming, Trouble

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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• Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Knowing Everything, Not Knowing, Sometimes

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• All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Flower, Darkness

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• I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Dream, Past

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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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• Without dreams, there could be no despair.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Despair

  "The Sandman.Fables and Reflections". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman,

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