Sandman Quotes

“For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House

“Never trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“Writers are liars my dear, surely you know that by now?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“Dreams shape the world”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country

“I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I?”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book of Dreams

“Any view of things that is not strange, is false.”
― Neil Gaiman

“You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Endless Nights

“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?”
― William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering through the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be.”
― Neil Gaiman

“How would you feel about life if Death was your older sister?”
― Neil Gaiman

“Lucifer: The million lords of hell stand arrayed about you. Tell us, why we should let you leave? Helmet or no, you have no power here - what power have dreams in Hell?
Dream: Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar [...] what power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?”
― Neil Gaiman

“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.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

“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.”
― Susanna Clarke, The Sandman: Book of Dreams

“I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me?”
― Neil Gaiman

“Nothing is immune to Time. Not even eternity.”
― Mike Carey, The Sandman Presents: The Furies

“Sempre quis saber o que aconteceu com as crianças depois que voaram para longe...
Eram apenas gente de mentira, não de verdade.
Mas não significa que não tenham histórias.”
― Neil Gaiman

“You shouldn’t trust the storyteller. Only trust the story.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Absolute Sandman, Volume 1

“Não posso afirmar que aprecio começos. São coisinhas muito desordenadas. Prefiro os finais. É mais fácil de se localizar neles.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If Dreams Disappear, Then So Will Humanity.”
― Neil Gaiman

“When The Lights Go Out by Stewart Stafford

When the lights go out,
From the seeds of doubt,
Phantoms come a-skittering.

Slow at first,
Then, as if a dam burst,
My psyche starts withering.

From a dune of sand,
Grabs a clawing hand,
My heartbeat takes to dithering.

Then an immovable object,
A vast shadow standing erect,
My paralysis is blithering.

But come the dawn of day,
I can finally break away,
My consciousness starts filtering.

© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I guess reality doesn't have to bother to make sense of itself. Perhaps it's only humanity who'd try to impose such a feckless idea as reason.”
― Dan Watters, Lucifer, Vol. 4: The Devil at Heart

“It seemed like the late autumn wind blew them in that night, spinning and dizzying from the four corners of the world.

It was a bitch wind, knife-sharp and cutting, and it blew bad cold.

And they came with it, scurrying and skittering, like yellow leaves and old newspapers, from a thousand places and from nowhere at all.

They came in their suits and their tee shirts, carrying rucksacks and briefcases and suitcases and plastic bags, muttering and humming and silent as the night.

It seemed like the bitter fall wind brought them there.

Perhaps it did.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman #14: Collectors

“Maybe he wasn't the villain of the story after all; he simply needed a long overdue nap. Like a cranky child who's had too many lemon sugar drops and gone too long without sleep.”
― Shea Ernshaw, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen

“And you still wish to live? Do you not seek the respite of death?"

"Are you crazy? Death is a mug's game. I got so much to live for.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If you enjoyed the show, tell your friends. If you didn’t I trust you’ll get throat cancer and die without ever again uttering another word.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Absolute Sandman, Volume 2