Alan Moore quotes - page 2

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:

I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one. An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. we must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us. (Alan Moore)
None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME. View quote
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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. View quote
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The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. 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. View quote
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Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. View quote
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Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. View quote
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Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. View quote
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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. View quote
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In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past. View quote
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I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars. View quote
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The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville. (Alan Moore)
The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]. View quote
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The superman exists and he's American. View quote
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Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world... View quote
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Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist. View quote
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They were kept in the dark, squatting there with nothing to dwell upon beyond the fact they were unclean. Even the touch of their shadow would sour the land, blighting crops that grew there....At the end of their confinement they were led out blinking into the harsh and masculine glare of the sun. Their clothing was taken from them and destroyed. Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, its mouth a red wound... View quote
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All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. View quote
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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. View quote
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Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. View quote
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If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going. View quote
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Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it. (Alan Moore)
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. View quote
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Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing. View quote
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Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. View quote
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Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. View quote
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Alan Moore

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Occupation: British Writer
Born: November 18, 1953
Quotes count: 367
Wikipedia: Alan Moore

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