Michael Moorcock Quotes

Why should their pain produce such marvelous beauty? he wonders. Or is all beauty created through pa...

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to ...

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the...

There was no more dangerous kind of madman than one who devoted a good brain and a courageous heart ...

The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ...

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend...

Time is the enemy of identity

Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden term...

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

When gods die, self-respect buds', murmured Orland Fank. 'Gods and their examples are not needed by ...

The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sent...

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united...

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were...

Therefore it seemed a dreadful injustice that these wise races should perish at the hands of creatur...

You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to ...

Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of...