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I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

Violence, Incompetence, Criticism, Human Nature, Empty Threats

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge

Neil Gaiman’s Quotes On Topics

Hope | Irish Whiskey | Journalism | Evolution | Subjectivity | Failure | Chaos | Destruction | History | Time Perception | Human Nature | Fragility | Advocacy | Boredom | Paradox | Life | Suffering | Violence | Obstacles | Happiness | More

More Neil Gaiman Quotes

“You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.”

Home, Consequences, Relationships, Impact, Departure

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Fairytales, Courage, Overcoming, Myth, Truth

“Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”

Self, Identity, Travel, Awareness, Introspection

“It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”

Libraries, Appreciation, Kindness, Community, Support

“Life and death are different sides of the same coin.”

Life, Death, Duality, Existence, Balance

“Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.”

Reading, Books, Authors, Sharing, Enjoyment

“I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.”

Ambition, Creativity, Writing, Goals, Artistic Expression

“It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is.”

Fairness, Acceptance, Life, Reality, Philosophy

“Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.”

Change, Nostalgia, Seasons, Endings, Memories

“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.”

Wonder, Life, Beyond, Existential Questions, Universal Truths

“Some skills can be attained by education, and some by practice, and some by time. Those skills will come if you study. Soon enough you will master Fading and Sliding and Dreamwalking. But some skills cannot be mastered by the living, and for those you must wait a little longer.”

Skills, Education, Mastery, Patience, Life Lessons

“I don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children.”

Children, Books, Reading, Imagination, Quality

“Different people remember things differently, and you’ll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”

Memory, Perception, Individuality, Experiences, Subjectivity

“Erwachsene halten sich auf Wegen. Kinder gehen auf Kundschaft.”

Adults, Children, Perspective, Cultural Contrast, Identity

“Don’t start anything you’re not prepared to finish.”

Commitment, Completion, Effort, Determination, Follow-through

“I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.”

Comedy, Happiness, Writing, Intention, Emotional Impact

“I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.”

Apocalypse, Silence, Acceptance, Change, Finality

“Well-meaning adults can easily destroy a child’s love of reading – do not discourage children from reading because you feel they’re reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.”

Reading, Children, Literature, Encouragement, Imagination

“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

“A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people’s heads. Books are good that way.”

Novel, Writing, Storytelling, Creativity, Communication