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Death Quotes by Neil Gaiman

73 Death quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Gods die when they are forgotten, and people too, while the land stays. The quotes describe death as a final, sometimes uncertain event that can symbolize larger losses, like a dog’s death standing for all dogs. They also mix love, desire, and dreams with the idea that death is part of the larger picture.

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“It is as natural to die as it is to be born.”

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So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

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Life and death are different sides of the same coin.

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“You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”

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“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”

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When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.

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Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.

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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

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“What you have to remember,” said Mr. Ibis, testily, “is that life and death are different sides of the same coin. Like…

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“Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land…

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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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“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”

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You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You…

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“It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the…

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Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

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For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there…

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“I have a particularly bad feeling about all this,” said Fat Charlie, helpfully. Spider nodded. “A bad feeling,” he said. “Yes. We…

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“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the…

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Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly…

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If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my…

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“All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories—if you keep…

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You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark…

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Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall…

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I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in…

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“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the…

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“One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained…

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“Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a…

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I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're…

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“Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not…

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Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down…

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“It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but then, back then, in…

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“Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found…

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“The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it. "What do you want?' it repeated.…

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“... People like to know what they are getting ahead of time. Thus, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, F.W. Woolworth: store-brands maintained and visible across…

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“Are you happy?” asked Mr. Nancy, suddenly. He had been staring at Shadow for several hours. Whenever Shadow glanced over to his…

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“I will dream if I want to, I said, and my death is my own affair.”

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“Death is never banished, it merely travels elsewhere.”

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How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?

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Death's a capricious thing, innit?" "Yes. Yes, she is.

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The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID.…

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“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”

“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

What do stars do? They shine.

“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”