Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “So the day became one of waiting, which was, he knew, a sin: moments were to be experienced; waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.”

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252. “Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”

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253. “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.”

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254. “If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”

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255. “How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.”

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256. “Make your mistakes, next year and forever.”

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257. “In order for stories to work – for kids and for adults – they should scare. And you should triumph. There’s no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn’t scary.”

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258. “I love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something’s in the world that wasn’t there before.”

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259. “Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It’s that easy.”

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260. “I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.”

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261. “Beware of Doors.”

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262. “This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.”

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263. “Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

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264. “Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.”

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265. “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.”

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266. “Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.”

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267. “Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other eyes. And then in the tale we stop before we die, or we die vicariously and unharmed, and in the world beyond the tale we turn the page or close the book, and we resume our lives.”

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268. “Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you’ll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors. Don’t do that.”

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269. “Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You’ve Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.”

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270. “A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people’s heads. Books are good that way.”

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271. “Where does contagion end and art begin?”

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272. “For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.”

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273. “He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”

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274. “Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all.”

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275. “When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. As far as I can tell so far, it seems to involve lots of foreign travel and not having to get up too early in the morning.”

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276. “Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”

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277. “I love CGI if it’s invisible. I don’t like it when it’s there and obvious.”

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278. “You see with your eyes. This means you can be misled by charm, by outward appearance. By webs of glamour, by surface pretences. I do not see with my eyes. I see good and I see evil. Nothing else.”

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279. “Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.”

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280. “It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.”

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281. “Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Being open about who you were at a moment in time when you were in a difficult or an impossible place matters more than anything.”

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282. “Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.”

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283. “All bookshelves are magical.”

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284. “I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I’m called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows.”

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285. “We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. We have an obligation to use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.”

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286. “I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it’s very, very classical, and in some ways I’m breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can’t do.”

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287. “Behind the curtain’s mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.”

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288. “I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that’s the moment of death. It’s a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.”

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289. “Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”

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290. “All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”

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291. “You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You bid the dead farewell, and you continue.”

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292. “Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.”

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293. “But standing in that hallway, it was all coming back to me. Memories were waiting at the edges of things, beckoning to me.”

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

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295. “There is no end. It is simply the end of the old times, Loki, and the beginning of the new times. Rebirth always follows death.”

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296. “But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”

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297. “You don’t have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.”

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298. “Whenever it rains you will think of her.”

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299. “I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won’t tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

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300. “I’m somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.”

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