#sandman

What win I if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#sandman #tempest #dreams

I move from dreamer to dreamer, from dream to dream, hunting for what I need. Slipping and sliding and flickering throught the dreams; and the dreamer will wake, and wonder why this dream seemed different, wonder how real their lives can truly be ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sandman #dreams

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one]. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#the-sandman #dreams

I am not in my gallery and neither do I hold your sigil. Will you speak to me? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sandman #dreams

Delirium: "What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?" Dream: "There isn't one." Delirium: "Oh. I thought maybe there was." Delirium and Dream, in Sandman #43: "Brief Lives: 3 ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#gaiman #love #poignant #sandman #dreams

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. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dreams

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sandman #dreams

No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#sandman-slim #math