“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.” — 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
“If not for Death, they'd be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning.” — 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
“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
If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary… — 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
“Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die , the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people… — 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
If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my… — 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
“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
“He heard long ago, in a dream, that one day in every century Death takes on mortal flesh, better to comprehend what… — 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
“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
“DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom. MORPHEUS: And… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“And all the weird shit tumbles into perspective. It doesn't matter and it isn't real. No miracles. No magic. No dreams. Just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from… — 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
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 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
“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
The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. — 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
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched… — 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
“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
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
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
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share
“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody” — neil Gaiman Copy Share
![“DESTRUCTION: Our sister [Death] defines life, just as Despair defines hope, or Desire defines hatred, or as Destiny defines freedom. MORPHEUS: And what do I define, by this theory of yours. DESTRUCTION: Reality, perhaps.” quote by Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1d3/neil-gaiman-29_death_destruction-our-sister-death-defines-lif_2609184.jpg)
