Neil Gaiman Quotes

Only where there are graves are there resurrections.

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Death in various forms is sometimes comforting, while resurrection and new life can be demanding and threatening. If I lived as if resurrection were real, and allowed myself to die for the sake of a new life, what might I be called upon to do?

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis.

There is no Death,/What seems so is transition.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

In order for something to be born, something has to die.That's not always, but there is something about that that I find to be true. That is, it's a natural thing.

How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.

One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more.

One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The dead can't change, but you can.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.