Top 300 Alan Moore Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Ideas are bulletproof.”

— Alan Moore

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2. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”

— Alan Moore

3. “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

— Alan Moore

4. “God is in the rain.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

6. “Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.”

— Alan Moore

7. “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.”

— Alan Moore

8. “No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

10. “Never despair. Never surrender.”

— Alan Moore

11. “The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

13. “It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

17. “My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.”

— Alan Moore

18. “The roots of the word ‘anarchy’ are ‘an archos,’ ‘no leaders,’ which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word ‘anarchy’ is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.”

— Alan Moore

19. “So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there’s always madness. Madness is the emergency exit.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

21. “We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”

— Alan Moore

22. “The past can’t hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that’s not the real you. That’s not who you are inside.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

24. “None of you understand. I’m not locked up in here with YOU. You’re locked up in here with ME.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

26. “Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

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28. “Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it’s seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It’s taken me a long time to realize that.”

— Alan Moore

29. “There’s no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There’s only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

— Alan Moore

30. “Love your rage, not your cage.”

— Alan Moore

31. “I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It’s small and it’s fragile and it’s the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

33. “But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.”

— Alan Moore

34. “The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”

— Alan Moore

35. “There’s no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there’s a longer pause between relapses.”

— Alan Moore

36. “This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.”

— Alan Moore

37. “Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”

— Alan Moore

38. “If you give me a typewriter and I’m having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry – that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn’t cost much to do that.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

40. “In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take.”

— Alan Moore

41. “There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is just as important.”

— Alan Moore

42. “Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.”

— Alan Moore

43. “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?”

— Alan Moore

44. “A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there’s no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?”

— Alan Moore

45. “Don’t leave home without your sword – your intellect.”

— Alan Moore

46. “The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we’ll ever do.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

49. “There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore