Alan Moore Quotes

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who watches the watchmen?

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and wh...

The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to at...

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography.

Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed...

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Hei...

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts ...

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's take...

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta...

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernib...

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everyb...

The superman exists and he's American.

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't t...

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natura...

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there...

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.

Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's gett...

The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by...

Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and ab...

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

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made...

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

There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only a...

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure ...

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybo...

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud...

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

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

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

Are you like, a crazy person?I’m quite sure they will say so.

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

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they ...

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am ...

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can b...

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...

You were already in a prison. You've been in a prison all your life. Happiness is a prison, Evey. Ha...

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins tha...

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

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over ...

Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships an...

...She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebo...

If you wear black, then kindly, irritating strangers will touch your arm consolingly and inform you ...

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can real...

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the p...

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god.

And it's only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We...

It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say...

Books require titles reading them doesn't

It was as if life was one great big impersonal piece of machinery.

His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, ...

Rome sees some bloke from the London School of Economics on the telly while he’s flicking through th...

Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can nev...

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply...

Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.

I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others ...

...My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a c...

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

I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to m...

I've proved my point. I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it t...

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

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? I...

There are people.There are stories.The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often...

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while tha...

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your...

I don't consider myself as a bad person, on the whole I consider myself a good person, I'm good to m...

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexua...

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as ...

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day...

When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops int...

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff mys...

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and ma...

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor...

Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, l...

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, wil...

To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th centur...

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent...

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart a...

Reality, at first glance, is a simple thing: the television speaking to you now is real. Your body s...

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind ...

Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place?Etrigan: Think you God built thi...

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pocket...

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

My thoughts about pornography tend to revolve around the fact that while very few of us are zombies,...

machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time

And I'm thinking about the old man. He'll be pounding on the glass right about now... or maybe not n...

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

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! YOU'VE READ ABOUT IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS! NOW, SHUDDER AS YOU OBSERVE, BEFORE YO...

402Emotional position is part of it, but as an individual you are not your emotions, neither are you...

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we wer...

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is t...

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to creat...

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certai...