Neil Gaiman Sometimes Quotations

Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.

The real world has no obligation to be convincing, so it throws up some very weird moments sometimes.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

He goes his way. We travel a spiral. The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

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?

Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes...

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while. That is the way of life, from the All-Highest down to the meanest creature in creation...But whether this is the case or no, it is still a worthy thing to open cages. It is still a virtuous act to free the imprisoned.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

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

"Ocean" is more about ... powerlessness and hopelessness. When we're very small we can't actually do anything - we have no say in what happens, we have no money or resources, we sometimes have no idea what's going on.

And sometimes when you fall... you fly...