Top 100 Grant Morrison Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Only nothing is impossible.”

— Grant Morrison

2. “Sometimes it’s only madness that makes us what we are.”

— Grant Morrison

3. “I’m the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I’m the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I’m your writer.”

— Grant Morrison

4. “Enough madness? Enough? And how do you measure madness? – The Joker.”

— Grant Morrison

5. “We live in the stories we tell ourselves.”

— Grant Morrison

6. “Before it was a Bomb, the Bomb was an Idea. Superman, however, was a Faster, Stronger, Better Idea.”

— Grant Morrison

7. “It’s so horrible to realize you’re just the same as everyone else, isn’t it?”

— Grant Morrison

8. “Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.”

— Grant Morrison

9. “I won’t tell you again! Don’t look back! In hell you never look back!”

— Grant Morrison

10. “Laugh and the world laughs with you!”

— Grant Morrison

11. “The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.”

— Grant Morrison

12. “Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.”

— Grant Morrison

13. “Then I reminded myself that all intelligent children suffer bad dreams.”

— Grant Morrison

14. “There’s a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”

— Grant Morrison

15. “I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star. Illuminated woman am I.”

— Grant Morrison

16. “I don’t ignore continuity, and try my best to stick as closely to the current status quo as possible, but it’s not my primary concern when I start a story.”

— Grant Morrison

17. “Somewhere in our Darkest Nights we made up a story about a Man who will never let us down.”

— Grant Morrison

18. “He taught me that the measure of a man lies not in what he says but what he does.”

— Grant Morrison

19. “El apocalipsis queda anulado. Hasta que yo lo diga.”

— Grant Morrison

20. “Superman loves everyone. He’s like Jesus except he punches people.”

— Grant Morrison

21. “A bullet in the right place can change the world.”

— Grant Morrison

22. “This is the end of our sentence.”

— Grant Morrison

23. “I’m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! – Gideon Stargrave.”

— Grant Morrison

24. “I think the only way you can get something out is to invest some real emotion into it, which means you’re already writing about what’s going to happen to you, whether you know it or not. That’s why I’m always surprised when people talk about writer’s block. Because to me, it can’t be stopped.”

— Grant Morrison

25. “Who needs girls when you’ve got comics?”

— Grant Morrison

26. “I couldn’t think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.”

— Grant Morrison

27. “If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it’s only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”

— Grant Morrison

28. “I just do what I do because it feels right. Other people attach labels to that.”

— Grant Morrison

29. “Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don’t write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can’t do, and vice versa.”

— Grant Morrison

30. “And that’s why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death.”

— Grant Morrison

31. “You’re much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”

— Grant Morrison

32. “Gayness is built into Batman. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s intended to be heterosexual, but the basis of the whole concept is utterly gay.”

— Grant Morrison

33. “The first light had cast the first shadow.”

— Grant Morrison

34. “A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries.”

— Grant Morrison

35. “The interior of our skulls contain a portal to infinity... of course it’s happening in your head but why on earth should that mean it’s not real?”

— Grant Morrison

36. “Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or, to put it in more basic terms, there’s little point in sigilizing for a lottery win if you don’t also buy a lottery ticket.”

— Grant Morrison

37. “Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who’s dreaming who?”

— Grant Morrison

38. “Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it’s just about turning into metaphor whatever’s going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.”

— Grant Morrison

39. “We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.”

— Grant Morrison

40. “Why did you make it so hard for me? I’d rather empty the ocean with a sieve. I do it for you. Or count the grains of sand on every beach. All for you. There are so many people, so many countries. But I have time. All the time in the world. Eternity.”

— Grant Morrison

41. “If this book has made any point clear, I hope it’s that things don’t have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.”

— Grant Morrison

42. “Only a bitter little adolescent boy could confuse realism with pessimism.”

— Grant Morrison

43. “It’s salt. Why don’t you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren’t I just good enough to eat?”

— Grant Morrison

44. “I prefer working out of strict continuity, because no normal human being can have a firm grip on the constantly shifting bardo-like territory of a comics universe, where entire histories can be erased by a strong enough super-sneeze.”

— Grant Morrison

45. “Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.”

— Grant Morrison

46. “And when it’s all done, when there’s no one left you’ll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain ‘Eternity.’ You’ll come back.”

— Grant Morrison

47. “There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don’t get done because they’re not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.”

— Grant Morrison

48. “Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases.”

— Grant Morrison

49. “The moon is so beautiful. It’s a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.”

— Grant Morrison

50. “We’re the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.”

— Grant Morrison