Alan Moore Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Alan Moore
Alan Moore Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there.
Please don't worry. It's a psychological complaint, common amongst ex-librarians. You see, she thinks she's a coffee table edition ...
I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
My point is, I went crazy. When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was. I went crazy as a coot! I admit it! Why can't you?
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.
Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.
The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.
Information is the only thing that can be lost in an imperishable universe. Mind is the only thing that truly dies.
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.
Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike ... except in California.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain ... The black sheep of the family.
I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.
Star light, star bright,
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
The first star I see tonight;
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.
I still can't believe it ... him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.
IF YOU HURT INSIDE, GET CERTIFIED, AND IF LIFE SHOULD TREAT YOU BAD ...
DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!
DON'T GET EE-EE-EVEN, GET MAD!
I've never studied anything formally. I was excluded from school at the age of 17, so I am an autodidact, which is a word that I have taught myself.
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
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?
I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion.
The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.
Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely ...
As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
Give me a platform of ideas and harmonies on which to gesture and unfurl my wings. Give me a place to stand.
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:
Simply to participate.
Simply to participate.
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness
I imagine that existential dread probably ought to get a devil. A devil of post-colonial angst. A devil of complicated grief.
inverted memories of this immediate revelation, memories that in some puzzling fashion one might have before their subject had occurred. The
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.
I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.
Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.
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.
Behind gods, ghosts, and people squats the state, which asserts total access to both public and private space: the