Alan Moore > Quotes

“If you are superman, let me be forever animal.”
― Alan Moore, The Great When

“All of our best and oldest legends recognize that time passes and that people grow old and die. The legend of Robin Hood would not be complete without the final blind arrow shot to determine the site of his grave. The Norse Legends would lose much of their power were it not for the knowledge of an eventual Ragnarok, as would the story of Davy Crockett without the existence of an Alamo.”
― Alan Moore

“We hope to show that it is possible to read humanity's development as a dismemberment of sorcery, and propose that our current over-specialised and compartmentalised world of ideas is built entirely from the bloody gobbets of a butchered, pre-existing dreamtime.”
― Alan Moore

“Of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.”
― Alan Moore

“I once heard a great definition of ‘to haunt’: we are haunted by that which we do not, or do not completely, understand.”
― Alan Moore

“It became apparent that the table was divided between those lucky enough to have once known Aleister Crowley and those lucky enough not to have done”
― Alan Moore

“This is clearly not to suggest that religion should be outlawed or that anyone should be prevented from pursuing his or her beliefs, simply to remark that there is no compelling reason why any religion should be allowed to impose its dictates on a population, nor have influence upon the policies of any rational society.”
― Alan Moore

“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”
― Alan Moore

“De outro lado de rio, vejo eu que sol está machucado quando vem ele perto de sol-desce. Junto eu que feras-de-céu é todas pegam e rasgam ele, porque sangue de ele é cai em elas, que todo céu é fica como sangue. Difícil é eu ouvir, para ouvir barulho-de-dor de sol, ele está mais longe para poder fazer barulho.”
― Alan Moore

“...ideas are bulletproof.”
― Alan Moore, V For Vendetta #7

“Despite the fact she dominated and controlled his life, for all the great slavery she represented, she was all he had. She was his only option, and the sooner he accepted that, the sooner he learned to surrender all hope and ambition to her greater will, the better it would be for him. He made up his mind there and then to drown his dreams in an insensate servitude, happy and willing.

He loved Coffin Ada.”
― Alan Moore, The Great When

“Comprido caminho por árvores em beira de rio, de outro lado de grama-de-canudo e desse jeito é passa por guarda-porco nós. Sol está em alto de céu, de onde, depois-de-agora, ele só cai. Forma-de-espírito preta de eu é fica toda pequena e assustada, que ela é esconde embaixo de pé de eu.”
― Alan Moore

“And to be fair, society is a lot more equal now. The main proposals in the Beveridge Report have been put into practice, we've been promised full employment, there's Nye Bevan’s health service, there's proper education for walks of life, and even with the rationing we're better fed now as a nation than we've ever been. This new Britannia is looking good, but where I think we're going to have a problem with letting the old Britannia go. It's clear the Empire had its chips, with India ready to abandon ship, but what's the betting that will try to hang onto our status as a grand world power, up there with Russia and the Yanks, despite the fact we’re in debt to her eyeballs? We can have the decent country we've been guaranteed, or we can keep up the illusion that we're still a great one, but I can't see that we'll have the money to do both. And knowing us, we'll probably decide that destitution is not too bad, so long as you can dress it in the Union Jack waistcoat.”
― Alan Moore, The Great When

“Dennis found himself thinking of the countless eggs of iron and fire that had fallen in the last ten years, some of them not yet hatched. Curled metal embryos, they slept beneath the amniotic rubble, saving up their birth wails for an unsuspecting future. This was the whole problem with the past, that is never really over, when the dreadful bricks of yesterday were what tomorrow would be built from. (191)”
― Alan Moore, The Great When