The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists Quotes

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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained...

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

[Dream] I do not want a grape. [Desire] I could make you want one.

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle-flame.

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out onto a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair u...

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them d...

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, we...

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists