Sandman Quotes

It is a fool's perogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
-- Dream

"I think the whole world's gone mad."
"Uh-uh. It's always been like this. You probably just don't get out enough.
-- Sexton and Death

Funny, she looks smaller from outside of her head."
-- Delirium

I could never be an angel... Innocence, once lost, can never be regained.
-- Lucifer

Nobody's creepy from the inside, Hazel. Some of them are sad, and some of them hurt, and some of them think they're the only real thing in the world. But they're not creepy.
-- Death

You are utterly the stupidest, most self-centered, appalingest excuse for an anthropomorphic personification on this or any other plane.
-- Death

Can I have some more water, please? My hair drank most of it.
-- Lyta Hall

Our existance deforms the universe. That's responsibility.
-- Delerium

What power would hell have if those imprisoned there could not dream of heaven?
-- Dream

"Say, whoever you are, you know what Freud said about dreams about flying? He said it means you are really dreaming about having sex."
"Really? Then tell me, what does it mean when you dream about having sex?"
-- Rose Walker and Dream

Sometimes we can choose the path we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for us. And sometimes we have no choice at all.
-- Dream

"I am that wanderer of the night"? I am that giggling-dangerous-totally- bloody-psychotic-menace-to-life-and-limb, more like it.
-- Peaseblossom, presumably of Puck

... the price of what you want, is getting what once you wanted.
-- Dream

For some folks, death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
-- Death

Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.
-- a Roman soldier

Any view of things that is not strange is false.
-- a voice in the desert

Without dreams there could be no despair.
-- Dream, to Despair

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
-- Death

What we are, we choose to be.
-- Nuala

There we go again. In the midst of death we are in life.
-- Hal

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything at all, and we just think they do.
-- Delerium

It is better to rule in hell that serve in heaven.
-- Lucifer

"Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loose upon the world." That's me.
-- Puck

Destinations are often a surprise to the destined.
-- Thessaly

There are many ways to lose the oldest game. Failure of nerve, hesitation... Being unable to shift into a defensive shape. Lack of imagination.
-- Dream

There is no such thing as a one-sided coin.
-- Dream

Why you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.
-- Dream

"The Devil made me do it." I have never made one of them do anything.
-- Lucifer

I do not threaten, I mearly advise caution.
-- Dream

Let's see: you two I know. Delerium... Death. I thought you only wore black. You must be... let's see; Desire, Despair, Destiny. And, uhm... Dog?
-- Mathew

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
-- Todd Faber

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.
-- Hob Galding

When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights, and lock the universe behind me as I leave.
-- Death

What's a false move? Is it very different from a real one?
-- Delerium

If you don't have a name, what do people call you? I mean, do they just wave and smile, or jingle little silver bells or what?
-- Delerium

"I didn't know you could stop being God."
"You can't stop being anything."
-- Delirium and Dream

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
-- Dream

... you've got to learn to throw things away eventually.
-- Death

It has always been the perogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
-- Dream

Forewarned is seldom forearmed.
-- Dream

Intend and outcome are rarely coincident.
-- Dream

Not knowing everything is all that makes it okay, sometimes.
-- Delerium

She is dead. You are alive. So live.
-- Dream

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