Neil Gaiman Quotes

What looks large from a distance, close up ain’t never that big.

A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

Maybe because she's smaller than me she might look taller.

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike.

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

When I see a head from a great distance, it ceases to be a sphere and becomes an extreme confusion falling down into the abyss.

Why does the past look so enticing to us? For the same reason why from a distance a meadow with flowers looks like a flower bed.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." Well, I say that there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget.

People on the 14th floor, you know what floor you’re really on.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

We underestimate the distance between ourselves and others. Not just inferential distance, but distances of temperament and ability, distances of situation and resource, distances of unspoken knowledge and unnoticed skills and luck, distances of interior landscape.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

Sometimes memory tricks you. Sometimes beauty is best when it's distant.

It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.