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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

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More Neil Gaiman Quotes

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

Transformation, Resilience, Change, Hope, Continuity

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

Perception, Reality, Magic, Observation, Wonder

“A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick – a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.”

Short Story, Magic, Emotion, Brevity, Storytelling

“Have you ever got everything you ever wanted? And then realized it wasn’t what you wanted at all?”

Desire, Realization, Introspection, Fulfillment, Disappointment

“I once read that you die because you see the Angel of Death, and you fall in love. And you fall in love so hard your soul is sucked out through your eyes, and that’s the moment of death. It’s a lovely, strange old Jewish legend.”

Death, Love, Legend, Spirituality, Mortality

“I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.”

Dreams, Exploration, Imagination, Nostalgia, Journey

“The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision.”

Change, Decision, Growth, Transformation, Consequence

“Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?”

Trust, Poetry, Advice, Wisdom, Writers’ Insights

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

Information, Libraries, Knowledge, Research, Resources

“We often confuse what we wish for with what is.”

Reality, Wishful Thinking, Perception, Self Awareness, Desires

“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

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

Trust, Dreams, Heart, Storytelling, Intuition

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”

Communication, Silence, Societal Critique, Frustration, Personal Reflection

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

Completion, Learning, Persistence, Growth, Discipline

“A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.”

Monsters, Angels, Hope, Dreams, Fantasy

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

Civilization, Society, Human Nature, Fragility, Social Order

“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”

Joy, Nostalgia, Childhood, Pleasure, Resilience

“It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you do not climb, you will not fall. This is true. But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall?”

Climbing, Risk, Failure, Effort, Attempts

“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.”

Internet, Kindness, Anonymity, Communication, Social Interaction

“The process of writing can be magical – there are times when you step out of an upper-floor window and you just walk across thin air, and it’s absolute and utter happiness. Mostly, it’s a process of putting one word after another.”

Writing, Creativity, Magic, Happiness, Process