The Sandman (TV Series)

A Hope in Hell (2022)

Tom Sturridge: Dream

Quotes 

• Lucifer Morningstar : I am... a dire wolf. Prey-stalking, lethal prowler.

  Dream : I am a hunter. Horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a serpent. Horse-biting, poison-toothed.

  Dream : I am a bird of prey. Snake-devouring, talons ripping.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a butcher bacterium. Warm-life destroying.

  Dream : I am a world. Space-floating, life-nurturing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am a nova. All-exploding, planet-cremating.

  Dream : I am a universe. All things encompassing, all life embracing.

  Lucifer Morningstar : I am Anti-Life. The Beast of Judgement. The dark at the end of everything. What will you be then, Dream Lord?

  Dream : [collapses]  I... I... I...

  Matthew the Raven : Boss? Hey, boss!

  Lucifer Morningstar : Still with us, Dream?

  Matthew the Raven : He is. And it's his move, Your Majesty.

  Lucifer Morningstar : There are no more moves. What can survive the Anti-Life?

  Matthew the Raven : Hey, boss. Listen to me. You know what can survive the Anti-Life? You. Dreams don't fucking die. Not if you believe in them. And I believe Dream of the Endless would never leave his raven here, alone, in Hell with Lucifer.

  Dream : I... am... Hope.

  [stands up] 

  Lucifer Morningstar : Hope.

  Dream : Well, Lightbringer? It's your move. What is it that kills hope?

  Lucifer Morningstar : Choronzon, give him his helm.

• Dream : The Ruler of Hell is honorable, indeed. I will not forget this.

  Lucifer Morningstar : Honorable? You joke, surely. Look out there, Morpheus. The billion Lords of Hell stand arrayed about you. Tell us, why should we let you leave? Helmet or no, you have no power here. After all, what power have dreams in Hell?

  Dream : You say I have no power here. Perhaps you speak truly. But to say dreams have no power in Hell... Tell me, Lucifer Morningstar, what power would Hell have if those here imprisoned were not able to dream... of Heaven?

• Nada : Dream Lord? It is you.

  Dream : I greet you, Nada.

  Nada : Kai'ckul. How I have prayed for this day. I knew you would come.

  Dream : It pains me to see you like this.

  Nada : Then, free me, Lord. Only your forgiveness can free me. Do you not still love me?

  Dream : It has been ten thousand years, Nada. Yes. I still love you. But I have not yet forgiven you.

• Dream : It has many names: Avernus, Tartarus, Hades, the infernal region you call Hell.

  Matthew the Raven : So, Hell does exist?

  Dream : It does. For some.

  Matthew the Raven : Does that mean it doesn't exist if you don't believe in it?

  Dream : Did you believe in it, when you were a man?

  Matthew the Raven : Yeah. I just didn't expect Hell to be cold.

• Matthew the Raven : So, you two know each other?

  Dream : We've known each other for a very long time. When we first met, Lucifer was the angel Samael.

  Matthew the Raven : I forgot the Devil used to be an angel.

  Dream : Not just any angel. The most beautiful, wisest, and most powerful of all angels. Saving only the Creator, Lucifer is, perhaps, the most powerful being there is.

  Matthew the Raven : More powerful than you?

  Dream : By far.

• Dream : A king may not enter another monarch's realm uninvited. There are rules, protocols which must be followed.

• Dream : A demon has a hundred motives for anything he does. All of them malevolent.