“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It is only a gesture," he said, turning back to Shadow. "But gestures mean everything. The death of one dog symbolizes the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Love isn't quite desire... Love is probably a little bit in The Sandman's domain. Love is partly a dream, it's partly to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I have a particularly bad feeling about all this,” said Fat Charlie, helpfully. Spider nodded. “A bad feeling,” he said. “Yes. We… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And it’s easy to be cynical about death when you’re young. When you are young, death is an anomaly. It’s not real.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One grave in every graveyard belongs to the ghouls. Wander any graveyard long enough and you will find it - water stained… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Could be anyone. The Kin . I mean... it’s like calling yourselves the People. It’s what pretty much every race-name means. Except… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Firstly, there no such person as Death. Second, Death's this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Your life is your own, Rainie. So is your death. And oblivion...? That's not an option, I'm afraid. -Death” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You mourn, for it is proper to mourn. But your grief serves you; you do not become a slave to grief. You… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“You will not even die in battle. No warrior will taste your blood. No one alive will take your life. You will… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Then she told me everyone can know everything destiny knows. And more than that. She said we all not only could know… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“What you have to remember,” said Mr. Ibis, testily, “is that life and death are different sides of the same coin. Like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I believe in a woman's right to choose, a baby's right to live, that while all human life is sacred there's nothing… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“A ghost-memory rises, here: a phantom moment, a shaky reflection in the pool of remembrance. I know how it felt when the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“It doesn't happen like this! Everybody, you put him in a death trap, he pulls something outta his utility belt and he's… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream....But the price… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You are time. Foul time, who steals the gold from a maiden's hair and takes the sapphire from a child's eyes. Dark… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“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,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image