Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Going off the grid is always good for me. It’s the way that I’ve started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.”

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452. “He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

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453. “And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”

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454. “London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.”

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455. “Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. You’re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They don’t even get your name right.”

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456. “Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn’t she the one who killed her children?”

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457. “Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.”

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458. “He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.”

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459. “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.”

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460. “While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.”

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461. “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.”

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462. “The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.”

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463. “I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”

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464. “Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.”

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465. “You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.”

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466. “Odin’s eye remains in Mimir’s well, preserved by the waters that feed the world ash, seeing nothing, seeing everything. Time.”

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467. “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.”

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468. “25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying ‘Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?’ 26 And the Angel said, ‘I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.’ 27 And the Lord did not ask him again.”

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469. “The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.”

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470. “Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.”

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471. “He said nothing: seldom do those who are silent make mistakes.”

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472. “It’s always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.”

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473. “There’s never been a true war that wasn’t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”

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474. “Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.”

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475. “Goodbyes are overrated.”

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476. “You people always hold onto old identities, old faces and masks, long after they’ve served their purpose. But you’ve got to learn to throw things away eventually.”

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477. “The end of the story of Batman is he’s dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn’t work that way. It can’t. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop.”

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478. “I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel.”

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479. “Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There’s the magic of it.”

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480. “I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.”

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481. “Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn’t what you wanted at all?”

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482. “It’s Coraline, not Caroline. Coraline.′ said Coraline.”

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483. “Hey, that’s life, flick it off if you can’t take a joke.”

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484. “Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.”

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485. “Inevitabilmente trattenuti dal mondo.”

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486. “Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.”

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487. “Here you go, she said. I don’t need it anymore. I’m very grateful. I think it may have saved my life, saved some other people’s death.”

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488. “Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”

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489. “Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”

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490. “Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.”

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491. “You can’t run away from home without destroying somebody’s world.”

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492. “What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?”

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493. “She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes ‘plum-blossom’ at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.”

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494. “When you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.”

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495. “Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.”

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496. “That’s sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they’re a girl.”

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497. “If he didn’t care about you, you couldn’t upset him.”

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498. “A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the scavengers took my heart. How it felt as the hunger birds, all mouth, tore into my chest and snatched out my heart, still pumping, and devoured it to get at what was hidden inside it. I know how that feels, as if it was truly a part of my life, of my death. And then the memory snips and rips, neatly, and -.”

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499. “Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.”

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500. “Any way, death is so final, isn’t it? “Is it?” asked Richard. “Sometimes,” said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.”

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