Top 300 Alan Moore Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “Rome sees some bloke from the London School of Economics on the telly while he’s flicking through the channels. This chap makes the point that governments don’t actually do anything for us. The only thing that makes them boss is that they control all the currency. Historically, anyone proposing an alternative to cash is brutally suppressed, but then historically they haven’t got the Internet, which makes such things much easier to set up; much harder to crack down on.”

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

303. “It was always a bad sign when better-off types drew comparisons between unsightly ghetto populations and some animal or other, most especially those species that we had, reluctantly, to poison periodically. Why didn’t people keep their lame excuses to themselves? Mick.”

— Alan Moore

304. “I’ve been dog rough, half blind and barking mad for years but you don’t catch me going on about it.”

— Alan Moore

305. “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

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

— Alan Moore

307. “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

308. “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

309. “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

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

313. “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

314. “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

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. “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

324. “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

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

— Alan Moore

326. “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

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

— Alan Moore

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

— Alan Moore

329. “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

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

— Alan Moore

331. “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