Top 500 Neil Gaiman Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word. Write it down.”

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302. “The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.”

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303. “Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.”

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304. “If it’s true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.”

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305. “Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked.”

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306. “The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

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307. “I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars...”

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308. “The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.”

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309. “You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.”

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310. “The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.”

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311. “Grown-ups don’t look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they’re big and thoughtless and they always know what they’re doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren’t any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”

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312. “People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil’s servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange.”

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313. “Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one’s lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.”

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314. “It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house – and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.”

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315. “I hope the strong women out there aren’t quiet and they don’t go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.”

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316. “If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.”

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317. “Friday’s a free day. A woman’s day.”

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318. “Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.”

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319. “I’m the idiot box. I’m the TV. I’m the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I’m the boob tube. I’m the little shrine the family gathers to adore.”

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320. “The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.”

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321. “There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.”

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322. “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.”

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323. “One thing I’ve learned: you can know anything, it’s all there, you just have to find it.”

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324. “I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I am lost in the darkness of a downcast heart. Dream or reality. Let it be decided tonight.”

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325. “I love stories where women save themselves.”

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326. “Nobody will ever hurt her. She’ll just smile her faint vague wonderful smile and walk away.”

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327. “Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.”

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328. “We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.”

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329. “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.”

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330. “It’s like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.”

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331. “It’s an artist’s job to show people the world they live in. We hold up mirrors.”

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332. “He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.”

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333. “All fire burns, little baby. You’ll learn.”

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334. “Of course it was Loki. It’s always Loki.”

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335. “You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.”

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336. “The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you’re different- you’re stronger, you’ve seen more, you’ve felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency.”

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337. “The boy with the dirty face stood up and hugged Coraline tightly. ‘Take comfort in this,’ he whispered. ‘Th’art alive. Thou livest.”

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338. “There is something about riding a unicorn, for those people who still can, which is unlike any other experience: exhilarating, and intoxicating, and fine.”

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339. “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.”

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340. “The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.”

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341. “Do not take revenge in the heat of the moment. Instead, wait until the hour is propitious.”

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342. “Set your fantasies in the here and now and then, if challenged, claim to be writing Magical Realism.”

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343. “The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.”

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344. “The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue.”

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345. “I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it felt like work, which meant that life did not feel like work.”

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346. “And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.”

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347. “It’s not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it’s yours, and then be willing to let it go.”

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348. “Sexton: I think the whole world’s gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It’s always like this. You probably just don’t get out enough.”

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349. “Rebirth always follows death.”

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350. “Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.”

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