Neil Gaiman Quotes

Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I'm somebody who considers happiness a journey, not a destination.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our ways because they are our stories.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Whatever you're scared of doing, Do it.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

I don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

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

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.