William Joyce > Quotes

“To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows.

But stories all...”
― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“Keep moving forward.”
― William Joyce, Meet the Robinsons

“you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.”
― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“Everyone's story matters.”
― William Joyce

“Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!”
― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“Watch over our child. Guide him safely from the ways of harm.
Keep happy his heart, brave his soul, and rosy his cheeks.
Guard with your life his hopes and dreams,
for he is all that we have, all that we are,
and all that we will ever be.”
― William Joyce, The Man in the Moon

“Old friends sometimes need no words to understand each other.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.”
― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“Morris liked to share he books with others. Sometimes it was a favorite that everyone loved, and other times he found a lonely little volume whose tale was seldom told.

"Everyone's story matters," said Morris. And all the books agreed.”
― William Joyce, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

“I think all wishes are the same, really," she continued. "Whether they ask for this, that, or the other, what they are really asking for is happiness.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“Up there in the sky.
Don’t you see him?
No, not the moon.
The Man in the Moon.
He wasn’t always a man.
Nor was he always on the moon.
He was once a child.
Like you.
Until a battle,
a shooting star,
and a lost balloon
led him on a quest.
Meet the very first
Guardian of Childhood.
MiM, the Man in the Moon.”
― William Joyce, The Man in the Moon

“Unlike them, however, her path was not through daring deeds or the study of magic or the use of miraculous powers. She had been gifted with something almost as rare: an open and eager mind. She had the gift of watching and listening, the gift of taking all the hurts and happenings of others' lives and understanding their purpose.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“She lived in a sort of ramshackle magnificence.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“To understand creativity is to conquer the boundaries of time and space.”
― William Joyce, Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

“I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“It was a smile of total reassurance and gave all who saw it a feeling of intense well-being. Not joy, but something akin to a sleepy peace. A sort of not-a-worry-in-the-world sensation.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Dreams do not exist within the realm of hours or minutes or any measure of the day. They live between the tick and the tock. Before the toiling of the bell, past the dawn, and beyond the velvet night.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“But it was in the nearly silent times that the real strength of their bond was evident. A friend who understands everything without being told is the rarest and best kind of friend.”
― William Joyce, E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core!

“Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The tragedies needed cheering up and would visit with the comedies. The encyclopedias, weary of facts, would relax with the comic books and fictions. All in all it was an agreeable jumble.”
― William Joyce, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

“I used the excess dirt to make a few more continents. Australia is my best work, I think,"
-Bunnymund”
― William Joyce, E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core!

“dJack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack forgot to check if the ice was thick.
Emma was still,
Emma was late,
Emma’s brother is now part of the lake.
Time has passed,
Time has gone,
Time brought Jack back wrong.
He was solemn,
He was brave,
He left his coat on Emma’s grave.
Emma was sad,
Emma was scared,
But she knew inside that Jack really cared.
Jack was lost,
Jack had forgot,
That he had a story before the plot.
Jack had wondered,
Jack had fought,
Jack had remembered what he had forgot.
I hope you dream.
I hope you wonder.
I hope you have fun because this is done.
Keep believing everyone.
Jack be fearless,
Jack be bold,
Jack drowned when he was 17 years old.”
― William Joyce, Jack Frost

“They want what they don't need, or can't use, or won't ever make them whole.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Nightlight, who never slept and never dreamed, would keep nightmares, both imagined and real, away.”
― William Joyce, E. Aster Bunnymund and the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core!

“A soothing sound enveloped them. Ombric hazarded a guess as to its origin, "It's like the falling sand from a thousand hourglasses.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.”
― William Joyce, The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs

“A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“All the pirates, and Lord Pitch's mercy, were dead in less time than it takes to sing a song.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams

“Lo habitual en los sueños son las aventuras extrañas, asombrosas y terribles. Las tierras incógnitas vienen y van. Los sueños épicos se despliegan. Las guerras se luchan y se ganan. Los seres queridos se pierdan y se encuentran. Mientras dormimos, vivimos vidas completamente diferentes. Y después despertamos, con disgusto o alivio, como si no hubiera ocurrido nada.”
― William Joyce, The Sandman and the War of Dreams