Alan Moore Quotes

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

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

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Ideas are bulletproof.

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

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

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

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

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

Love your rage, not your cage.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Who makes the world? Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. Perhaps it simply is, has been, will always be there…a clock without a craftsman.

Everybody has their story to tell.

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

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.

Never despair. Never surrender.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

...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?

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

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

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

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.