Quotes from Alan Moore

Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. It's true. She's aging more noticeably every day—while I am standing still. I prefer the stillness here. I am tired of Earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I'm recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.

I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.

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.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.

We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal?

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

Adrian Veidt: I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end. Dr. Manhattan: 'In the end'? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. 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. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.

Me? I'm the king of the twentieth century. I'm the bogeyman. The villain...The black sheep of the family.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: "In the beginning was the Word.

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.

They say we have we created the man to end all wars; I say we have created a man to end all worlds.

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.

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.

Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

They offered you a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body. You said you'd rather die. You faced the fear of your own death, and you were calm and still.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap.

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Her name is Anarchy . And she has taught me more as a mistress than you [Justice] ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom . She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you , Jezebel .