The Sandman Quotes

“All that I did," she said, "everything I tried to do. All for nothing."

Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly.

'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it. And...?'

'I shall seek the Buddha,' said the fox, with a toss of her head. 'But first I shall seek revenge.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“Nothing is done entirely for nothing. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and you are not the fox you were yesterday. Take what you have learned, and move on.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“Even in dreams and in death, a monk and a fox are from different worlds, as they were in life, and in different worlds they will forever stay”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“I would have given my life for you," she whispered, sadly.

"Live," said the monk.

"You shall be revenged," said the fox. "The onmyoji who did this to you will learn what it means to take something from a fox.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“Take what you have learned, and move on”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like all poets I spent too long in the kingdom of dreams.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“Vengeance can be a road that has no ending. You would be wise to avoid it.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“Seek not revenge, but the Buddha”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters

“One who transmuted things from formlessness and shapelessness into that-which-was-not-real, but without which the real would have no meaning”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Dream Hunters