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“[Dream] I do not want a grape.
[Desire] I could make you want one.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“Sempre quis saber o que aconteceu com as crianças depois que voaram para longe...
Eram apenas gente de mentira, não de verdade.
Mas não significa que não tenham histórias.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?”
― Neil Gaiman

“Take what you have learned, and move on.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone,
We must speak of other matters,
You can be me when I'm gone

Flowers gathered in the morning,
Afternoon they blossom on,
Still are withered in the evening,
You can be me when I'm gone.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House

“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.”
― Neil Gaiman

“The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.
It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House

“I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book of Dreams

“Any view of things that is not strange, is false.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"
Dream: "There isn't one."
Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“Dreams shape the world”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?”
― Neil Gaiman

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book Three

“What win I if I gain the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to get a toy?”
― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

“Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?"
"No.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.”
― Neil Gaiman

“To be Despair. It is a portrait. Only close your eyes and feel.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a top hat for fun, her ankh necklace for power, and carries a big black umbrella for travelling to the 'sunless lands.' I wonder what she smells like? I'm sure it's fresh and clean and her laugh must be rinkly or maybe it's warm and chuckly, but whatever it is, Death laughs a lot.

We talk about the 'miracle of birth' but what about the 'miracle of death'? We have the science of death pretty much figured out, but death's magic and inevitability have been feared and ignored for a long time now.

What if Death is a person?”
― Neil Gaiman, Death: The Time of Your Life