Top 300 Alan Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “I’ve been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don’t catch me going on about it.”

— Alan Moore

302. “His sister, in a big turquoise Angora sweater, leaned upon the wood frame of the open nursery door, anxiously looking out to see if he was really going to show, beaming and waving like a pastel colored TV Muppet when she spotted him.”

— Alan Moore

303. “The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.”

— Alan Moore

304. “Each day and every deed’s eternal, little boy. Live them in such a way that you can bear to live with them eternally.”

— Alan Moore

305. “He’d been wrong to tell the freaked-out teenager that it would all get better, because actually it didn’t. It just faded to a deep held chord, a pedal-organ drone behind the normal noise of life, a thing that you forgot about and thought you’d put away forever, but it was still there. It was still here. He.”

— Alan Moore

306. “Nothing meant anything that couldn’t be turned instantly into its opposite by any competent spin-doctor or spoon-bender. History and language had become so flexible, wrenched back and forth to suit each new agenda, that it seemed as if they might just simply snap in half and leave us floundering in a sea of mad Creationist revisions and greengrocers’ punctuation.”

— Alan Moore

307. “Evening work is economical. Power comes most cheaply by night.”

— Alan Moore

308. “Information is the only thing that can be lost in an imperishable universe. Mind is the only thing that truly dies.”

— Alan Moore

309. “I no longer wish to look at dead things.”

— Alan Moore

310. “In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.”

— Alan Moore

311. “All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy.”

— Alan Moore

312. “Alma had told him once that to smell burning was a symptom schizophrenics suffered from, adding “but then they probably set fire to things quite often, so it’s bound to be a tricky judgement call.”

— Alan Moore

313. “Even though it’s somebody else’s tragedy rather than my own. I was there and I laughed along with all the rest and I guess that makes it part of my story also.”

— Alan Moore

314. “Maybe the world has run out of room for monsters... or maybe... they’re just getting harder to recognize.”

— Alan Moore

315. “In this world, you shouldn’t rely on help from anybody. In the end, a man stands alone.”

— Alan Moore

316. “The people that we are when we’re alive, that’s who we are forever, nipper.”

— Alan Moore

317. “Fair enough, you have managed to successfully swindle me, and so I will never work for you again.”

— Alan Moore

318. “The third and, given due consideration, most probable of all my theorems, is that life is ordered by the principles of some religion so peculiar and obscure it has no followers, and none may fathom it, nor know the rituals by which to court its favor.”

— Alan Moore

319. “Although the fire is dead, these cinders are its voice.”

— Alan Moore

320. “Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

— Alan Moore

321. “I want you to look at this face. I want you to look at all of these carven wrinkles. At these haunted eyes. And I want you to consider that in my experience this is what a human face looks like after 40 years of writing. So, that’s something to think about.”

— Alan Moore

322. “Nor does anyone know what the purpose is in anything, or why things happen in the way they do. It don’t seem fair when you see some of them mean buggers living to a ripe old age and here’s your lovely daughter took so soon. All I can tell you is what I believe. There’s justice up above the street, my dear.”

— Alan Moore

323. “This had been before the war on drugs, of course, when launching military campaigns against abstract emotions or inanimate materials would have been seen as the behaviour of highly-strung and over-reaching Daleks.”

— Alan Moore

324. “There is something in death akin to that which exists in love: both spur men to eloquence.”

— Alan Moore

325. “There’s no point worrying about it now, at any rate. Things tend to sort themselves out, Alma thinks, although she knows that this directly contradicts the laws of physics, common sense, and her political experience of the last forty years.”

— Alan Moore

326. “If somebody asked why you weren’t seeking work, you could explain that you were already employed as an archaic mental.”

— Alan Moore

327. “Poverty was timeless and you could depend upon it. It was never out of fashion.”

— Alan Moore

328. “If you had a population that were miserable and restless because they had nowhere bearable to live, then the preferred solution seemed not to be spending money on improving their condition but on hiring more police in case things should turn ugly, housing these new myrmidons in properties from which the itchy and disgruntled man-herds were already serendipitously purged.”

— Alan Moore

329. “Wherever did these jumped-up monkeys get all their ideas from?”

— Alan Moore

330. “Do you understand how I have loved you? You’d have all been dead in a year or two from liver failure, men, or childbirth. Dead. Forgotten. I have saved you. Do you understand that? I have made you safe from time, and we are wed in legend, inextricable within eternity.”

— Alan Moore

331. “Some of us have always lived on edge, Daniel. It is possible to survive if you observe rules: just hang on by fingernails... and never look down.”

— Alan Moore