Death

Oh, just shut up and let me finish. You can shout at me afterwards.

-Death, in SANDMAN: "Season of Mists", episode 0

When the first living thing existed, I was there, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job is finished. I'll put the chairs on tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

-Death, in SANDMAN #20: "Façade"

Desire

Desire, listen to me carefully. Remember this. We of the endless are the servants of the living -- we are not their masters. We exist because they know, deep in their hearts, that we exist.

-Dream, in SANDMAN #16: "Lost Hearts"

Human beings are the creatures of desire. They twist and bend as I require it. If I thought otherwise, I would crack, like Delirium; or I would abandon my realm, like our lost brother.

-Desire's thoughts, in SANDMAN #16: "Lost Hearts"

And Desire walks the endless pathways of its body, certain that he, or she, or it, is in sole and only control of its destiny. The only inhabitant of the twilight realm of Desire; and it feels nothing like a doll. Nothing like a doll at all.

-Closing words of SANDMAN #16: "Lost Hearts"

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.

Dream

Life is no play. We meet people once, and never see them again. There is no shape to events, no point at which we turn to the audience for phrase. No time at which we step behind the stage, to see the actors changing their wigs, ang painting their faces, and muttering their lines.- But that is Precisely where you are now. Welcome to my House.

-Will Shakespeare and Dream, in The Wake

I could never again be an angel... Innocence, once lost, can never be regained.

-Lucifer, in Season of MistsSuggested by T.A.B.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

-John Dee, in Preludes & Nocturnes.

"I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life."

-Brant Tucker, in World's End.

"I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

-Dream, in Brief Lives.

You are mortal: it is the mortal way. You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live.

-Dream to his son Orpheus, in Brief Lives

Delirium

You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in the little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds, and thinking, maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds. But it's just cold and wet and empty, but when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like that.

-Delirium, Brief Lives

You know how she is when she gets an idea into her head. I mean, when one finally penetrates.-Desire describes Delirium, in SANDMAN #41: "Brief Lives:1"
It always rains on the unloved -- Wet dreams -- A fishing expedition -- She kisses wyverns (The Disneyland analogy) -- Dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers -- Desire swears by the first circle -- "Things are changing" -- What can possibly go wrong?

-Title of SANDMAN #42: "Brief Lives:2"

"I mean, does this always happen when a girlfriend walks out on him?""Not at all. For example, after the Nada affair he razed the Dreaming. It was a bleak, lonely desert for centures. I remember the first flower that grew. The first time he smiled again...-Matthew and Lucien, in

-SANDMAN #42: "Brief Lives:2"

She was no longer Delight, and the blossoms had already begun to fall in her domain, becoming smudged and formless colours, and she had no one to talk to...-Delight becomes Delirium, in

-SANDMAN #42: "Brief Lives:2"

The Man of Steel

I loveeiiit when Brandon Routh played Superman he was so fit for the role, I was totally mesmerized and I couldn't help myself but awed in satisfaction, It was like Superman was so real. It was so amazingly perfect. The people behind it really made a good choice. A splendid depiction. A superb picture of the man of steel.