Neil Gaiman Quotes - Page 4

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story. (from 'Instructions')

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.'

'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.