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Dreams Quotes by Neil Gaiman

107 Dreams quotes by Neil Gaiman

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Shadow crawled across the floor, pulling a thin blanket over himself before his eyes closed. The dreams jump from scary monsters and stealing hearts to bright angels and hopeful visions. A fox of dreams reminds us that nothing we bring back from a dream is ever wasted.

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Dreams are hopes, and echoes of hope.

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Without dreams, there could be no despair.

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“Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.”

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Dreams shape the world

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I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

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Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

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“When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.”

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“[Dream] I do not want a grape. [Desire] I could make you want one.”

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The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

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

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One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

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“And then she woke up." I suppose there are worse endings.”

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Is there any person in the world who does not dream? Who does not contain within them worlds unimagined?

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“But it was a dream, and in dreams, sometimes, you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or…

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I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.

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Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.

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Writing is flying in dreams. When you remember. When you can. When it works. It's that easy.

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Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the…

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“Rainie, mythologies take longer to die than people believe. They linger on in a kind of dream country that affects all of…

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“I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like…

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I know not whether you came to me or I to you. Not whether it was a dream, asleep or awake. I…

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“I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible. Bad dreams I can cope with. They're just nightmares, and…

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“You're alive...That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world…

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I miss you', he admitted. 'I'm here', she said. 'That's when I miss you most. When you're here. When you aren't here,…

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“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales…

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“So what I want to know is, when I'm asleep, do I really remember how to fly? And forget how when I…

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“You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But — you say that dreams have no power here? Tell me,…

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The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write…

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“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger…

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“Las Vegas has become a child's picture-book dream of a city-here a storybook castle, there a sphinx-flanked black pyramid beaming white light…

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“The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a…

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“The dead are, for the most part, done with the world. You are not. You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential.…

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“It begins, as most things begin, with a song. In the beginning, after all, were the words, and they came with a…

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“I know how Gods begin, Roger. We start as Dreams. Then we walk out of Dreams into the Land. We are worshiped…

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“God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who…

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“We knew that it would soon be over, and so we put it all into a poem, to tell the universe who…

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The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

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A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

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That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

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“She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble.”

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“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…

“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,…

“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.”

So many things to see, people to do.

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”

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You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…

“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”