Top 300 Alan Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Truly, life is hell and death’s rough hand our only deliverance.”

— Alan Moore

152. “I increasingly fear that nothing good can come of almost any adaptation, and obviously that’s sweeping. There are a couple of adaptations that are perhaps as good or better than the original work. But the vast majority of them are pointless.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

154. “Justice be above the Street, for lightnings mark our transit and the corners of Eternity are opened. This.”

— Alan Moore

155. “There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.”

— Alan Moore

156. “Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is.”

— Alan Moore

157. “The entire universe – for one thing – only exists in your perceptions. That’s all you’re gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that’s being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality.”

— Alan Moore

158. “The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.”

— Alan Moore

159. “The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it’s combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.”

— Alan Moore

160. “And it’s only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We can make love amongst the gods, or we can screw on a dirty mattress. It’s our choice.”

— Alan Moore

161. “Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.”

— Alan Moore

162. “People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can’t talk about them.”

— Alan Moore

163. “I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.”

— Alan Moore

164. “My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the ’60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.”

— Alan Moore

165. “Without my face, nobody knows. Nobody knows who I am.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

167. “Professor Einstein says that time differs from place to place. Can you imagine? If time is not true, what purpose have watchmakers, hein?”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

169. “A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.”

— Alan Moore

170. “Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.”

— Alan Moore

171. “I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”

— Alan Moore

172. “You are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.”

— Alan Moore

173. “I’d prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence.”

— Alan Moore

174. “I’m the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN’T imaginary.”

— Alan Moore

175. “I believe he’s a man of great integrity, but he seems to see the world in very black and white. Manichean terms. I personally believe that to be an intellectual limitation.”

— Alan Moore

176. “Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.”

— Alan Moore

177. “It’s pretty much a fact that our entire universe is a mental construct. We don’t actually deal with reality directly. We simply compose a picture of reality from what’s going on in our retinas, in the timpani of our ears, and in our nerve endings.”

— Alan Moore

178. “The announcement that there is a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen television series hasn’t caused me to drastically alter my opinions. Now it seems they are recycling things that have already proven not to work.”

— Alan Moore

179. “I love the smell of paper in the morning; it smells like victory.”

— Alan Moore

180. “One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

182. “It’s raining in Washington tonight. Plump, warm summer rain that covers the sidewalks with leopard spots. Downtown, elderly ladies carry their houseplants out to set them on the fire-escapes, as if they were infirm relatives or Boy Kings. I like that.”

— Alan Moore

183. “Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing’s hypothetical.”

— Alan Moore

184. “Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn’t appear to notice.”

— Alan Moore

185. “With your depth of field and curious soul, allowing something to evolve or to see meaning in playful accidents can make the difference between creating the same old thing, or something that is unique, valuable, lasting, beautiful.”

— Alan Moore

186. “Finally, faced with horrors both intolerable and unavoidable, I chose madness.”

— Alan Moore

187. “In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.”

— Alan Moore

188. “It’s early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.”

— Alan Moore

189. “Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.”

— Alan Moore

190. “Design is based upon resolving how someone is going to use something. Great design is describing the very best experience for them, then moving towards that ideal.”

— Alan Moore

191. “I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.”

— Alan Moore

192. “I’m a very smug show-off at heart. I’m altogether too pleased with myself. The big boost for me is to be able to turn out something that I think is pretty marvelous. I’m not in it for money, I’m just in it for the glory.”

— Alan Moore

193. “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

194. “For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won’t be the same.”

— Alan Moore

195. “Madness was all very well if you were Alma and in a profession where insanity was a desirable accessory, a kind of psycho-bling. You couldn’t get away with it down Martin’s Yard, though. In the reconditioning business there was no real concept of delightful eccentricity. You’d find yourself as the recipient of a pharmaceutical lobotomy provided on the National Health, as a result of which your waistband would expand as your abilities to think, talk and respond to stimuli contracted. This.”

— Alan Moore

196. “The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas.”

— Alan Moore

197. “I don’t like to go to conventions, and I don’t like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there’s no real communication going on there.”

— Alan Moore

198. “Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”

— Alan Moore

199. “I’m remote from most technology to the point that I’m kind of Amish.”

— Alan Moore

200. “Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who’ve got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man’s guts out.”

— Alan Moore