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Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

Time, Mortality, Pain, Life, Inevitability

Every hour wounds The last one kills

Every hour wounds The last one kills

Every hour wounds The last one kills

Neil Gaiman’s Quotes On Topics

Subjectivity | Authors | Truth | Memory | Tradition | Motivation | Self Awareness | Cynicism | Rebellion | Personal Responsibility | Strength | Darkness | Chaos | Voice | Existence | Whimsy | Creative Freedom | Information | Social Order | Ideas | More

More Neil Gaiman Quotes

“I think most things are pretty magical, and that it’s less a matter of belief than it is one of just stopping to notice.”

Magic, Perception, Belief, Mindfulness, Wonder

“Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.”

Reading, Exploration, Knowledge, Discovery, Encouragement

“Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.”

Bravery, Courage, Determination, Self-discovery, Potential

“If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.”

Parenting, Independence, Success, Growth, Letting Go

“It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in life or romance novels. By the same token, it's not something I find terribly important.”

Continuity, Life, Romance, Daily Routine, Priorities

“You have to finish things – that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”

Completion, Learning, Persistence, Growth, Discipline

“The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.”

Past, Present, Memory, Time, Influence

“The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.”

Identity, Memories, Mortality, Life, Reflection

“I think I’ve got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?”

Fear, Terror, Emotions, Personal Growth, Understanding

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”

Writing, Struggle, Creativity, Challenge, Introspection

“Libraries really are the gates to the future.”

Libraries, Knowledge, Future, Education, Opportunity

“How can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow.”

Happiness, Introspection, Longing, Discovery, Growth

“The end of the story of Batman is he’s dead. Because, in the end, the Batman dies. What else am I going to do? Retire and play golf? It doesn’t work that way. It can’t. I fight until I drop. And one day, I will drop.”

Batman, Mortality, Struggle, Storytelling, Heroism

“You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. 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.”

Grief, Loss, Life, Moving On, Mourning

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

Desire, Satisfaction, Change, Perspective, Irony

“I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don’t understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.”

Stories, Importance, Empathy, Understanding, Escape

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

Hell, Internal Struggle, Perspective, Suffering, Personal Responsibility

“You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.”

Literature Critique, Gender Representation, Fantasy, Humor, Exaggeration

“Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.”

Feedback, Honesty, Perspective, Writing, Communication

“The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.”

Knowledge, Representation, Reality, Philosophy, Paradox