--- title: "15 Gone Quotes By Neil Gaiman" description: "15 Gone quotes by Neil Gaiman. Plus more from Neil Gaiman and more Gone sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/neil-gaiman-29_gone_he-had-gone-beyond-the-world-of-metaphor_1509936.jpg" --- > [He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/he-had-gone-beyond-the-world-of-metaphor-simile-into-the-place-of/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/neil-gaiman-29_gone_he-had-gone-beyond-the-world-of-metaphor_1509936.jpg) > [Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/information-and-knowledge-two-currencies-that-have-never-gone-out-of/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/neil-gaiman-29_currency_information-and-knowledge-two-currencies_479553.jpg) > [There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/there-was-nowhere-they-could-have-gone-and-they-went-there-anyway/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/neil-gaiman-29_gone_there-was-nowhere-they-could-have-gone-a_1450984.jpg) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/sexton-i-think-the-whole-world-s-gone-mad-death-uh-uh-it-s-always/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f93/neil-gaiman-29_death_sexton-i-think-the-whole-world-s-gone-ma_2334787.jpg) > [All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/all-around-me-darkness-gathers-fading-is-the-sun-that-shone-we-must/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/neil-gaiman-29_afternoon_all-around-me-darkness-gathers-fading-is_350898.jpg) > [Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/songs-remain-they-last-a-song-can-last-long-after-the-events-and-the/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/873/neil-gaiman-29_dream_songs-remain-they-last-a-song-can-last-l_2792995.jpg) > [I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/i-walk-across-the-dreaming-sands-under-the-pale-moon-through-the/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d35/neil-gaiman-29_cities_i-walk-across-the-dreaming-sands-under-t_1969629.jpg) > [This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/this-is-a-book-for-every-fiddler-who-has-realized-halfway-through/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/neil-gaiman-29_air_this-is-a-book-for-every-fiddler-who-has_715058.jpg) > [The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-names-are-the-first-things-to-go-after-the-breath-has-gone-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c5/neil-gaiman-29_first-things_the-names-are-the-first-things-to-go-aft_913660.jpg) > [We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/we-were-never-lovers-and-we-never-will-be-now-i-do-not-regret-that/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/875/neil-gaiman-29_business_we-were-never-lovers-and-we-never-will-b_408506.jpg) > [You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-re-alive-bod-that-means-you-have-infinite-potential-you-can-do-2/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/031/neil-gaiman-29_alive_you-re-alive-bod-that-means-you-have-inf_973835.jpg) > [Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/most-of-what-i-want-to-try-to-do-is-continue-to-go-places-with/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/580/neil-gaiman-29_fans_most-of-what-i-want-to-try-to-do-is-cont_3148519.jpg) > [It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/it-doth-not-hurt-whispered-a-faint-voice-she-will-take-you-life-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de3/neil-gaiman-29_care_it-doth-not-hurt-whispered-a-faint-voice_2142819.jpg) > [When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/when-you-re-starting-off-as-a-young-writer-you-look-at-all-the-stuff/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e12/neil-gaiman-29_gone_when-you-re-starting-off-as-a-young-writ_312576.jpg) > [Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn't something you do for money. It's something you do because what children read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/making-fiction-for-children-making-books-for-children-isn-t-something/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/neil-gaiman-29_and-love_making-fiction-for-children-making-books_2746133.jpg) ## Other authors on Gone ## More by Neil Gaiman > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/people-talk-about-books-that-write-themselves-and-it-s-a-lie-books/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/like-all-sentient-beings-fat-charlie-had-a-weirdness-quotient-for/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/shadow-crawled-across-the-floor-to-the-yellow-foam-rubber-pad-and/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [ “\[T\]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/t-hey-could-not-help-being-amused-every-time-another-little-human/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [So many things to see, people to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/so-many-things-to-see-people-to-do/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.’ – Ben Franklin,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/three-may-keep-a-secret-if-two-of-them-are-dead-ben-franklin/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-need-more-than-a-beginning-if-you-re-going-to-start-a-book-if-all/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-can-tell-the-date-of-an-old-science-fiction-novel-by-every-word/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“The quickest way is sometimes the longest.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/the-quickest-way-is-sometimes-the-longest/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/they-were-spells-spelled-with-words-to-make-worlds-waiting-for-me-in/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/finish-what-you-re-writing-whatever-you-have-to-do-to-finish-it/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [What do stars do? They shine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-do-stars-do-they-shine/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?" "What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?" "Dead things," suggested Mr…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/what-asked-mr-croup-do-you-want-what-asked-the-marquis-de-carabas-a/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/you-get-on-with-your-own-life-lettie-gave-it-to-you-you-just-have-to/) [Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) > [“Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/eyes-will-not-see-you-minds-will-not-hold-you-where-you-are-is/) [neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gone/neil-gaiman/#itemlist", "name": "15 Gone Quotes By Neil Gaiman", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil Gaiman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/he-had-gone-beyond-the-world-of-metaphor-simile-into-the-place-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/neil-gaiman-29_gone_he-had-gone-beyond-the-world-of-metaphor_1509936.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/neil-gaiman-29_gone_he-had-gone-beyond-the-world-of-metaphor_1509936.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd1/neil-gaiman-29_gone_he-had-gone-beyond-the-world-of-metaphor_1509936.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor & simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.” — Neil Gaiman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil Gaiman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/information-and-knowledge-two-currencies-that-have-never-gone-out-of/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/neil-gaiman-29_currency_information-and-knowledge-two-currencies_479553.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/neil-gaiman-29_currency_information-and-knowledge-two-currencies_479553.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/42f/neil-gaiman-29_currency_information-and-knowledge-two-currencies_479553.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.” — Neil Gaiman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Neil Gaiman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/there-was-nowhere-they-could-have-gone-and-they-went-there-anyway/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/neil-gaiman-29_gone_there-was-nowhere-they-could-have-gone-a_1450984.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/neil-gaiman-29_gone_there-was-nowhere-they-could-have-gone-a_1450984.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/neil-gaiman-29_gone_there-was-nowhere-they-could-have-gone-a_1450984.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.” — Neil Gaiman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. 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