Alan Moore quotes

Alan Moore is a British writer, best known for his influential work in comic books such as "Watchmen," "V for Vendetta," and "From Hell." His storytelling style and complex characters have had a profound impact on the comics industry and popular culture. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic book writers of all time. Here are 367 of his quotes:

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

All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Moore

Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Alan Moore

Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

Alan Moore

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Alan Moore

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

Alan Moore

Don't leave home without your sword - your intellect.

Alan Moore

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

Alan Moore

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Moore

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

Alan Moore

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

Alan Moore

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

Alan Moore

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Alan Moore

Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

Alan Moore

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

I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.

Alan Moore

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

My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.

Alan Moore