The Quotable Sandman

[ohiobbw]

I got this book with quotes from the comic Sandman. I thought I would share my favorite.

(Pointless thread I guess, but add more quotes if you like, or just talk amoungst your selves!)


Have you ever been in love?

Horrible, isn’t it?

It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build this whole armor, for years, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person wanders into
your stupid life … You give them a piece of you. They don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and your life isn’t your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so that a simple pharse like “Maybe we should just be friends” or “How perceptive” turns into a glass splinter working
its way into your heart.

It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It’s a
soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love.

I hate love.
- Rose Walker

 

[Spinaroonie]

I much prefered Sandman Mystery Theater, which featured the Golden age Sandman, who wore a gas mask and gassed the bad guys to sleep.

However Neil gaiman's Death: The high cost of living is absolutle greatness.

I also like the other Sandman, the cigarette smokin', Beer Drinkin', Cane Swingin' ECW stable, whose Character was ripped off to make Stone Cold.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Can't think of any quotes off the top of my head... it's been a while since I've read them.

Just wanted to applaud your good taste!

 

[thumbs2_ca]

hmmmmmm

I really like that Ohiobbw.
I live a sheltered life and to be honest know nothing about this Sandman but if that is an indication of what he writes I am going to go looking.
What is the name of that particular book as I noticed you just mentioned it has some quotes from the comic sandman?

 

[ohiobbw]

The book is called The Quotable Sandman, it's really cool. It has random quotes from different characters, plus excellent illustrations from various artists.

I actually haven't read the comics either (I'm not a comic fan for some reason, I don't know why.) But I saw some of the quotes online, then I saw the book at the bookstore I work at. Plus it was only $9.95 (and I get a discount ). So I bought it and I love it.

 

[ohiobbw]

A Halloween quote!


"Me? Lady, I'm your worst nightmare -- a pumpkin with a gun."

-- Mervyn Pumpkinhead


Also from Sandman

 

[Guest]

*Perking up*

The Sandman?!

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. --Dream.


If you do not climb, You will not fall, this is true.
But is it that bad to fail, that hard to fall? --Dream.

Say, whoever you are, you know what Freud said about dreams about flying? He said it means you are really dreaming about having sex.

Really? Then tell me, what does it mean when you dream about having sex? --Rose walker to Dream.


(One of my personal faves)
Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like Chicken and Telephone ice cream?... Green mouse ice cream was the worst.
I didn't like that at all. --Delirium.

Little one, I would like to see anyone--prophet, king or god--persuade a thousand cats to do anything at the same time. -- Orange Cat.

I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. -- Death


*Ravenloft*

 

[Ravenloft]

Yep, that was me up there, I just took to flipping long with my favorite subject...

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories -- If you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. -- Narrator.

 

[KinkyLOVE]

Sand-MAN? No, sorry. How about . . .

...

Here was something more graspable: a spontaneous eruption of lunacy among an ordinary cross section of people . . .

- Clive Barker - Weave World

That covers a MULTITUDE of sins &


LOVE, Kin Ky

 

[Ravenloft]

Never read Clive Barker...

Stephen King and Dean Koontz though...

Oh, and some James Herbert.

 

[KinkyLOVE]

Dean Koontz? Nah! CLIVE ALIVE!

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives?

- The DEAN of Koontz

CLIVE BARKER!

LOVE, Kin Ky (<--- You KNOW you just wanna CLICK your feels so GOOD & SHOUT all about it!)

 

[ohiobbw]

Ravie, you like Delirium?


"I am following my fish."

 

[ZoeKat]

great taste

hi all
i love alll neil gaimans(sp?..yes i' AM dyslexic..LOL) work,
first got into death and sandman through reading an interview where tori amos mentioned neil..any other tori fans here?
like all the others mentioned too, LOVE< LOVE LOVE Dune- frank herbert..anyone else?

'i will not fear, fear is the mind killer
fear is the little death that brings total annhilation,
i will face my fear, i will stand in it's path and let the fear wash over and through me,
and when it has passed, only i will remain
i will not fear, fear is the mind killer...'

- from "the bene gessrit litany against fear" as best i remember..where'd that book go..**scratches head**

 

[ZoeKat]

he he..sorry Ravenloft..stoned, just noticed you mentioned frank**sheepish grin**
have you read the new pre-quels written by his son& others?
they're actually better than some of franks sequels imho..LOL

great thread ohiobbw..i like your av

 

[ohiobbw]

great thread ohiobbw..i like your av

Thanks!

 

[Ravenloft]

Re: great taste

Hiya right back ZoeKat.
Yes, you spelled his name right, save for capitalization. Heheh!
I actually got into Tori through Sandman, Death to be more precise... Its usually the other way around isn't it? A person hears Tear in your hand and wonders about the Dream King reference and hunts it down... Right? Well... I lifted my nose from that comic and was like... "Who's this weird girl?" Ah well...

So, yes, I am a Tori Fan. Even got the "Y Kant Tori Read" cd... I bought it for toys, I swear!

Frank Herbert? Never read Dune, watched it though... I said JAMES Herbert... He wrote Sepulchre... And the book that a little known movie called Haunted was based on. Love that movie, just can't find the novel. That man's novels are a bitch to find you know... Little over a year and all I could turn up was Moon and Sepulchre? Damn!

hi all
i love alll neil gaimans(sp?..yes i' AM dyslexic..LOL) work,
first got into death and sandman through reading an interview where tori amos mentioned neil..any other tori fans here?
like all the others mentioned too, LOVE< LOVE LOVE Dune- frank herbert..anyone else?

'i will not fear, fear is the mind killer
fear is the little death that brings total annhilation,
i will face my fear, i will stand in it's path and let the fear wash over and through me,
and when it has passed, only i will remain
i will not fear, fear is the mind killer...'

- from "the bene gessrit litany against fear" as best i remember..where'd that book go..**scratches head**

 

[Ravenloft]

JAMES Herbert, babe, JAMES! Heheh! Just teasing you...

he he..sorry Ravenloft..stoned, just noticed you mentioned frank**sheepish grin**
have you read the new pre-quels written by his son& others?
they're actually better than some of franks sequels imho..LOL

great thread ohiobbw..i like your av

 

[iann666]

Bitish cop show The Sweeney

Carter:- He is his own worst enemy
Regan:- Not all the time I'm around he's not