Top 300 Alan Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.”

— Alan Moore

52. “I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.”

— Alan Moore

53. “Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

56. “Love doesn’t have a point. Love is the point.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

58. “Our masters have not heard the people’s voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

— Alan Moore

59. “Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.”

— Alan Moore

60. “There’s a notion I’d like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”

— Alan Moore

61. “Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.”

— Alan Moore

62. “The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.”

— Alan Moore

63. “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.”

— Alan Moore

64. “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.”

— Alan Moore

65. “Please! Don’t all leave. Somebody has to do it, don’t you see? Somebody has to save the world...”

— Alan Moore

66. “The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.”

— Alan Moore

67. “If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice.”

— Alan Moore

68. “It is the oldest ironies that are still the most satisfying: man, when preparing for bloody war, will orate loudly and most eloquently in the name of peace.”

— Alan Moore

69. “It doesn’t do you any service to demonize any group of people. It’s much better to try and understand from the inside.”

— Alan Moore

70. “Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?”

— Alan Moore

71. “You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

73. “On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.”

— Alan Moore

74. “I didn’t put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.”

— Alan Moore

75. “In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past.”

— Alan Moore

76. “I’m the king of the 20th century. I’m the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

78. “The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you’ll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra – you can cut off its head in the Germany of the ’30s and ’40s, but it’ll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.”

— Alan Moore

79. “Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.”

— Alan Moore

80. “Once a man has seen society’s black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn’t exist.”

— Alan Moore

81. “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.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

83. “Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future.”

— Alan Moore

84. “I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.”

— Alan Moore

85. “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.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

87. “The superman exists and he’s American.”

— Alan Moore

88. “Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you’re gonna come to the conclusion that you’re a rat.”

— Alan Moore

89. “There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.”

— Alan Moore

90. “All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”

— Alan Moore

91. “Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free... An inch; it is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away; we must never let them take it from us.”

— Alan Moore

92. “Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring like oxygen turning into gold. I’ve longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life for generation after generation until finally, your mother loves a man and out of that contradiction against unfathomable odds, it’s you-only you-that emerged, to distill so specific a form from all that chaos. It’s like turning air into gold. A miracle.”

— Alan Moore

93. “All culture must have arisen from cult.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

95. “My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.”

— Alan Moore

96. “Everybody has their story to tell.”

— Alan Moore

97. “I’ve never really cared much about money. I’ve got enough to live on. And it’s not like I live in a fancy house, it’s not like I own a car, and it’s not like I ever go on holiday.”

— Alan Moore

98. “I don’t think there’s really any difference between art – or writing, or music – and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.”

— Alan Moore

99. “I’m not a very shy person. I’m just somebody who’s got a lot of work and who doesn’t like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.”

— Alan Moore

100. “Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.” Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor... I am Pagliacci.”

— Alan Moore