Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “First rule of magic: Don’t let anyone know your real name. Names have power.”

— Neil Gaiman

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

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153. “Not only are there no happy endings,? she told him, ’there aren’t even any endings.”

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154. “Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.”

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155. “You shine like a beacon in a dark world.”

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156. “He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”

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157. “Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

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158. “The only advice I can give you is what you’re telling yourself. Only, maybe you’re too scared to listen.”

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159. “The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.”

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160. “Don’t start anything you’re not prepared to finish.”

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161. “There aren’t any good guys, and there aren’t any bad guys. There’s just us. People. Doing our best to get by.”

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162. “Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps.”

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163. “Black as night, sweet as sin.”

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164. “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.”

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165. “I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.”

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166. “Time is fluid here’, said the Demon.”

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167. “There’s an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, that you’ve somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind.”

— Neil Gaiman

168. “An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.”

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169. “Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.”

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170. “Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”

— Neil Gaiman

171. “She was the storm, she was the lightning, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.”

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172. “When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I’ll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.”

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173. “The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.”

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174. “All your tomorrows start here.”

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175. “They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.”

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176. “We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.”

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177. “The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.”

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178. “It’s not the fish you catch, it’s the peace of mind you take home at the end of the day.”

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179. “I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful.”

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180. “When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.”

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181. “Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.”

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182. “Any view of things that is not strange, is false.”

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183. “Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.”

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184. “Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.”

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185. “I’m going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.”

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186. “We owe it to each other to tell stories.”

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187. “It is a fool’s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.”

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188. “American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I’m sure there are words that are simply in there ’cause I like them. I know I couldn’t justify each and every one of them.”

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189. “It won’t hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.”

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190. “People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.”

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191. “There’s not much high and low culture any more: there’s just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it’s good art or bad art.”

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192. “There are lots of artists in the world. But there’s only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you’ve done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.”

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193. “It’s not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It’s the most important thing there is.”

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194. “Life and death are different sides of the same coin.”

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195. “A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It’s a community space. It’s a place of safety, a haven from the world.”

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196. “The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

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197. “So many things to see, people to do.”

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198. “Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.”

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199. “The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.”

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200. “If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.”

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