sandman

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
a4d4d7d	For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.	love sandman	Neil Gaiman
3c432b3	"Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?" Dream: "There isn't one." Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was."	love sandman gaiman poignant	Neil Gaiman
485c727	You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.	death sandman	Neil Gaiman
5c5e924	The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.	hob-gadling sandman	Neil Gaiman
7ef8b1e	I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?	sandman tattoo	Neil Gaiman
3923d29	For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.	death sandman gaiman postmodernism graphic-novel	Neil Gaiman
b741b13	You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.	sandman	Neil Gaiman
41ab8e1	I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.	dreams sandman	Neil Gaiman
4dc1cde	What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy?	sandman tempest	William Shakespeare
55c31a3	Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.	delirium sandman neil-gaiman	Neil Gaiman
c781ba0	Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a top hat for fun, her ankh necklace for power, and carries a big black umbrella for travelling to the 'sunless lands.' I wonder what she smells like? I'm sure it's fresh and clean and her laugh must be rinkly or maybe it's warm and chuckly, but whatever it is, Death laughs a lot. We talk about the 'miracle of birth' but what about the 'miracle of death'? We have the science of death pretty much figured out, but death's magic and inevitability have been feared and ignored for a long time now. What if Death is a person?	death sandman	Neil Gaiman
e849163	"Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?" "No."	dream delirium sandman gaiman postmodernism	Neil Gaiman
7253042	I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of stars.	stars worlds-end sandman snow	Neil Gaiman
8401912	Take what you have learned, and move on.	sandman	Neil Gaiman
c088a1e	Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt.	life sandman	Neil Gaiman
45dd49a	I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.	inspirational sandman	Neil Gaiman
2c8c24c	For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.	stars morpheus sandman neil-gaiman star cold night eyes	Susanna Clarke
ad38bc8	Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.	sandman	Neil Gaiman
3c4c4fc	When the first living thing existed, I was there, waiting.	sandman	Neil Gaiman
613cef7	"He said, "Were he only like his sister--what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!" "Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled. "Why, his sister, John. His sister."	death sandman sister neil-gaiman smile lady eyes	Susanna Clarke
cad9f1c	Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.	destiny grey-ladies sandman ending creation	Neil Gaiman
087f30e	I know how Gods begin, Roger. We start as Dreams. Then we walk out of Dreams into the Land. We are worshiped and loved, and take power to ourselves. And then, one day, there's no one left to worship us. And in the end, each little God and Goddess takes its last journey back into Dreams... and what comes after, not even WE know. I'm going to dance now, I'm afraid.	ishtar sandman gods	Neil Gaiman
b1116f1	Without warning a lady appeared. She came from the direction of Friday-street, for she had just been with Mr. Newbolt. She strode capably through the snow. She wore a black silk gown and something very queer swung from a silver chain about her neck. Her smile was full of comfort and her eyes were kind and happy. She was just as Mr. Newbolt had described. And the name of this lady was Death.	death sandman neil-gaiman	Susanna Clarke
acc0b85	Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope.	wisdom sandman	Peter Straub
7f0d993	"A major defining factor was my wanting him to be part of the DC Universe. Because if someone as powerful as the Sandman was running all the dreams in the world, a natural question would be "Why haven't we heard about him by now?" The answer I came up with was "He's been locked away." And that solution formed an image in my head of a naked man in a glass cell. My next question was "How long had he been trapped there?" The movie hadn't been made yet, but I'd read Oliver Sacks's book a few months earlier, so I knew about the encephalitis lethargica, or "sleepy sickness," that had swept Europe in 1916. Scientists to this day don't understand what caused it, and I loved the idea of blaming it on the Sandman's imprisonment, so I determined the length of his stay to be seventy-two years--ending in late 1988, when the series debuted. And so on; each plot point just seemed to naturally lead to the next one."	sleepy-sickness sandman neil-gaiman interview	Hy Bender

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Neil Gaiman

3c432b3

"Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?" Dream: "There isn't one." Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was."

love sandman gaiman poignant

Neil Gaiman

485c727

You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

death sandman

Neil Gaiman

5c5e924

The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.

hob-gadling sandman

Neil Gaiman

7ef8b1e

I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?

sandman tattoo

Neil Gaiman

3923d29

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

death sandman gaiman postmodernism graphic-novel

Neil Gaiman

b741b13

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

sandman

Neil Gaiman

41ab8e1

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

dreams sandman

Neil Gaiman

4dc1cde

What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy?

sandman tempest

William Shakespeare

55c31a3

Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden.

delirium sandman neil-gaiman

Neil Gaiman

c781ba0

Death has a body like a model, the clothes of a poet and the smile of your best friend. She wears a top hat for fun, her ankh necklace for power, and carries a big black umbrella for travelling to the 'sunless lands.' I wonder what she smells like? I'm sure it's fresh and clean and her laugh must be rinkly or maybe it's warm and chuckly, but whatever it is, Death laughs a lot. We talk about the 'miracle of birth' but what about the 'miracle of death'? We have the science of death pretty much figured out, but death's magic and inevitability have been feared and ignored for a long time now. What if Death is a person?

death sandman

Neil Gaiman

e849163

"Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?" "No."

dream delirium sandman gaiman postmodernism

Neil Gaiman

7253042

I don't really like driving in the snow. There's something about the motion of the falling snowflakes that hurts my eyes, throws my sense of balance all to hell. It's like tumbling into a field of stars.

stars worlds-end sandman snow

Neil Gaiman

8401912

Take what you have learned, and move on.

sandman

Neil Gaiman

c088a1e

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions too huge to be felt.

life sandman

Neil Gaiman

45dd49a

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

inspirational sandman

Neil Gaiman

2c8c24c

For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.

stars morpheus sandman neil-gaiman star cold night eyes

Susanna Clarke

ad38bc8

Seek not revenge, but the Buddha.

sandman

Neil Gaiman

3c4c4fc

When the first living thing existed, I was there, waiting.

sandman

Neil Gaiman

613cef7

"He said, "Were he only like his sister--what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!" "Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled. "Why, his sister, John. His sister."

death sandman sister neil-gaiman smile lady eyes

Susanna Clarke

cad9f1c

Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless...as everything created has an end.

destiny grey-ladies sandman ending creation

Neil Gaiman

087f30e

I know how Gods begin, Roger. We start as Dreams. Then we walk out of Dreams into the Land. We are worshiped and loved, and take power to ourselves. And then, one day, there's no one left to worship us. And in the end, each little God and Goddess takes its last journey back into Dreams... and what comes after, not even WE know. I'm going to dance now, I'm afraid.

ishtar sandman gods

Neil Gaiman

b1116f1

Without warning a lady appeared. She came from the direction of Friday-street, for she had just been with Mr. Newbolt. She strode capably through the snow. She wore a black silk gown and something very queer swung from a silver chain about her neck. Her smile was full of comfort and her eyes were kind and happy. She was just as Mr. Newbolt had described. And the name of this lady was Death.

death sandman neil-gaiman

Susanna Clarke

acc0b85

Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope.

wisdom sandman

Peter Straub

7f0d993

"A major defining factor was my wanting him to be part of the DC Universe. Because if someone as powerful as the Sandman was running all the dreams in the world, a natural question would be "Why haven't we heard about him by now?" The answer I came up with was "He's been locked away." And that solution formed an image in my head of a naked man in a glass cell. My next question was "How long had he been trapped there?" The movie hadn't been made yet, but I'd read Oliver Sacks's book a few months earlier, so I knew about the encephalitis lethargica, or "sleepy sickness," that had swept Europe in 1916. Scientists to this day don't understand what caused it, and I loved the idea of blaming it on the Sandman's imprisonment, so I determined the length of his stay to be seventy-two years--ending in late 1988, when the series debuted. And so on; each plot point just seemed to naturally lead to the next one."

sleepy-sickness sandman neil-gaiman interview

Hy Bender