Neil Gaiman Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Neil Gaiman quotes, Neil Gaiman sayings, and Neil Gaiman proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

There's no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones. Neil Gaiman
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. Neil Gaiman
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style. Neil Gaiman
There's none so blind as those who will not listen. Neil Gaiman
There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts. Neil Gaiman
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill. Neil Gaiman
Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do a better trick or a different trick because they'd already done that one. And writers tend to be otters. Most of us get pretty bored doing the same trick. We've done it, so let's do something different. Neil Gaiman
Sometimes big things happen, and they echo. Those echoes crash across worlds. They are the ripples in the fabric of things. Often they manifest as storms. Reality is a fragile thing, after all. Neil Gaiman
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down. Neil Gaiman
And now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Neil Gaiman
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. Neil Gaiman
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. Neil Gaiman
Tools, of course, can be the subtlest of traps. Neil Gaiman
Any view of things that is not strange, is false. Neil Gaiman
We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettable. Neil Gaiman
Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you. Neil Gaiman
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day. Neil Gaiman
There's an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you've been somewhere before, that you've somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind. Neil Gaiman
To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due. Neil Gaiman
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. Neil Gaiman
Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this. Neil Gaiman
Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. Neil Gaiman
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all. Neil Gaiman
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? Neil Gaiman
Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters. Neil Gaiman
You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. Neil Gaiman
This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are. Neil Gaiman
Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill. Neil Gaiman
He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times. Neil Gaiman
Be wise, because the world needs wisdom. If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would. Neil Gaiman