The Sandman

"Maybe she really was death. I mean, it would be really nice if death was somebody, and not just nothing, or pain, or sadness. And it would be really good if death could be someine like Didi. Somebody funny, and friendly, and nice. And maybe just a tiny bit crazy. And I wish I could see her again. I wish she wasn't dead. But if it means dying first... Well... I suppose I can wait. For a while."
-Sexton Furnival, talking about Didi/Death in Death: The High Cost of Living.
"-I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them."
-Death, talking about herself, in Dream Country.

"-I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds... of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord? - I am hope."

-Choronzon and Dream, playing the oldest game, in Preludes & Nocturnes.

"-What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?"

-Dream to Lucifer and the citizens of Hell, in Preludes & Nocturnes.