Alan Moore Quotes

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“No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

“That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.”

“Is it meaningless to apologize?

Never.”

“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty”

“It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for… it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?”

“I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.”

“Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except… me?”

“How can two people hate so much without knowing each other?”

“American love — like coke in green glass bottles… they don't make it anymore.”

“Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.”

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

“Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.”

“Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.”

“While a truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power.”

“There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.”

“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

“With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth… But we as gardeners, must beware… for some seeds are the seeds of ruin… and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous”

“Roses are red
Violets are blue
Everything's possible
Nothing is true.”

“This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?”

“Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”

“I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.”

“Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

“Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.”

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?”

“Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.”

“… My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?”

“If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.”

“To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.”

“The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs…. It´s us. Only us.”

“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”

“I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”

“Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.”

“What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?”

“They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.”

“Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain… The black sheep of the family.”

“The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.”

“Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

“A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?”

“The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”

“I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact!”

“Truly, whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist upon the whim of murderers.”

“Her name is. And she has taught me more as a mistress than[Justice] ever did! She has taught me thatis meaningless without. is honest. makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike,.”

“By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.”

“The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him… [from Macbeth]”

“They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.”

“Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.”

“Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike… except in California.”

“The superman exists and he's American.”

“It's cold and it's mean spirited and I don't like it here anymore.”