Top 300 Alan Moore Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

202. “There is a house above the world, where the over-people gather. There is a man with wings like a bird... there is a man who can sea across the planet and wring diamonds from its anthracite. There is a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues... In the house above the world the over-people gather... To a fry, mad voice that whispers of earthdeath.”

— Alan Moore

203. “It doesn’t matter how “successful” each of us is in life. We’re all doomed to die. Why can’t anyone else see that?”

— Alan Moore

204. “There’s a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.”

— Alan Moore

205. “I don’t think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it’s more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.”

— Alan Moore

206. “The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.”

— Alan Moore

207. “Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we’re driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.”

— Alan Moore

208. “If you’re going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we’re living in.”

— Alan Moore

209. “Crazed with helplessness, I cursed God and wept, wondering if he wept also.”

— Alan Moore

210. “If you’re using sex to sell sneakers, then you’re not just selling sneakers, you’re selling sex as well, and you’re contributing to the sexual temperature of society.”

— Alan Moore

211. “Let me show you firmness of my belief.”

— Alan Moore

212. “Children starve while boots costing many thousands of dollars leave their mark upon the surface of the moon. We have labored long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”

— Alan Moore

213. “Love. His love for Cathy and the kids. That had been one of his protective mantras, he was certain, except love just made things crueller, gave you so much more to lose.”

— Alan Moore

214. “I didn’t really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer.”

— Alan Moore

215. “It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.”

— Alan Moore

216. “They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.”

— Alan Moore

217. “I’m dependent on writing for a living, so really it’s to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you’re going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.”

— Alan Moore

218. “There’s been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.”

— Alan Moore

219. “Orwell was almost exactly wrong in a strange way. He thought the world would end with Big Brother watching us, but it ended with us watching Big Brother.”

— Alan Moore

220. “In heaven’s name be a man, sir! Your pitiful whining sickens me!”

— Alan Moore

221. “You see, there’s the way things seemed and then there’s the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.”

— Alan Moore

222. “Faith is for sissies who daren’t go and look for themselves.”

— Alan Moore

223. “The relentless onslaught of this stupefying imagery that pounds our inner landscapes flat, a carpet-bombing of the mind. The language of the world, that overwhelms us.”

— Alan Moore

224. “I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn’t. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn’t the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.”

— Alan Moore

225. “People have asked me why I made the first chapter of my first novel so long, and in an invented English. The only answer I can come up with that satisfies me is, ‘To keep out the scum.’”

— Alan Moore

226. “Despite the constant clamor for attention from the modern world, I do believe we need to procure a psychological space for ourselves. I apparently know some people who try to achieve this by logging off or going without their Twitter or Facebook for a limited period.”

— Alan Moore

227. “Seymour, we do not dignify absurdities with coverage. This is still America, god damnit! Who wants a cowboy actor in the White House?”

— Alan Moore

228. “I suppose that the main drive is to find the edge of something and then throw myself over it.”

— Alan Moore

229. “I’m not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. And on the surface you can see that the Internet could go an awful long way to educating, enlightening, informing and connecting the world.”

— Alan Moore

230. “Affected most, they understand the least...”

— Alan Moore

231. “Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?”

— Alan Moore

232. “We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.”

— Alan Moore

233. “If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they’re going.”

— Alan Moore

234. “Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself.”

— Alan Moore

235. “If you’re functional, it doesn’t matter if you’re mad.”

— Alan Moore

236. “You must understand that knowledge is not all your heritage. I includes also courage and belief, like hers that we commemorate herein... and romance. Always, always romance.”

— Alan Moore

237. “Crazed with helplessness, I cursed God and wept, wondering if He wept also. But then, what use are His tears, if His help was denied me?”

— Alan Moore

238. “I’m very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.”

— Alan Moore

239. “I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.”

— Alan Moore

240. “Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.”

— Alan Moore

241. “Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.”

— Alan Moore

242. “A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there’s some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.”

— Alan Moore

243. “I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium.”

— Alan Moore

244. “When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they’re probably absolutely literally correct.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

246. “The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else.”

— Alan Moore

247. “I love films that are made with almost no budget.”

— Alan Moore

248. “I have so very much. I have so very little.”

— Alan Moore

249. “In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you’re writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader’s brain.”

— Alan Moore

250. “Places don’t stay where you left them. You go back there, anywhere, and even if it looks exactly how it did before, it’s somewhere else.”

— Alan Moore