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Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman
Pain, Life And Love, Path
Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.189, A&C Black

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman
Baby, Pain, Sleep

Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.

Neil Gaiman
Pain, Hate, Soul

There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have heard it before, and we cannot allow ourselves to feel it to deeply. We build a shell around it like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function, day in, day out, immune to others' pain and loss. If it were to touch us it would cripple us or make saints of us; but, for the most part, it does not touch us. We cannot allow it to.

Neil Gaiman
Pain, Loss, Unique

He stared up at the stars, and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the stars; pale, they were, and smiling gently, as if they had spent so much time above the world, watching the scrambling and the joy and the pain of the people below them, that they could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.

Neil Gaiman
Stars, Pain, People
Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.

Neil Gaiman
Song, Pain, Wine
Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

Neil Gaiman
Brother, Pain, Men
Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

Neil Gaiman
Dream, Pain, Real

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

Neil Gaiman
Pain, Adventure, Meals
Neil Gaiman “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' Stardust #4”, Vertigo

Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

Neil Gaiman
Pain, Long, People

We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to cope. This is how we walk and talk and function , day in, day out. Immune to others’ pain and loss.

Neil Gaiman
Pain, Loss, Order

Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an island.

Neil Gaiman
Brother, Pain, Men
Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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