110+ Alan Moore Quotes On Magic, Imaginative And Complex

Alan Moore is a British writer best known for his work in comic books. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest comic book writers of all time. He is the creator of popular works such as Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Alan Moore on magic, imaginative, complex.

Top 10 Alan Moore Quotes

1. No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.
2. Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
3. There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.
4. Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.
5. It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
6. Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.
7. Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
8. You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.
9. People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
10. A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Moore Short Quotes

• Ideas are bulletproof.
• If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.
• The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
• We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.
• The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]
• Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.
• Roses are red Violets are blue Everything's possible Nothing is true.
• There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
• I'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
• Never despair. Never surrender.

Alan Moore Quotes About Magic

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

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected. — Alan Moore

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness — Alan Moore

Alan Moore Quotes About Imaginative

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. — Alan Moore

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain. — Alan Moore

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money. — Alan Moore

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary. — Alan Moore

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining. — Alan Moore

If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the problem is with coming up with imaginative ways in which people can procreate. — Alan Moore

Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters. — Alan Moore

Alan Moore Quotes About Life

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. — Alan Moore

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life. — Alan Moore

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell. — Alan Moore

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. — Alan Moore

I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret. — Alan Moore

Who imprisoned me here? Who keeps me here? Who can release me? Who's controlling and constraining my life except...me? — Alan Moore

I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline. — Alan Moore

Alan Moore Quotes About People

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. — Alan Moore

I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there. — Alan Moore

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. — Alan Moore

How can two people hate so much without knowing each other? — Alan Moore

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. — Alan Moore

It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside. — Alan Moore

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies. — Alan Moore

I should just keep me mouth shut, I just upset people. — 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

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

Alan Moore Quotes About World

...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? — Alan Moore

You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville. — Alan Moore

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world. — Alan Moore

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

The Here-and-Now demands attention, is more present to us. We dismiss the inner world of our ideas as less important, although most of our immediate physical reality originated only in the mind. The TV, sofa, clock and room, the whole civilisation that contains them once were nothing save ideas. — Alan Moore

Alan Moore Quotes About Consciousness

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

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

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. — Alan Moore

Our consciousness, a startling outgrowth of the universe, is possibly its most important part, the fraction of existence that can think, feel, marvel at itself. — Alan Moore

Alan Moore Famous Quotes And Sayings

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. — Alan Moore

In order to be able to make it, you have to put aside the fear of failing and the desire of succeeding. You have to do these things completely and purely without fear, without desire. Because things that we do without lust of result are the purest actions we shall ever take. — Alan Moore

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. — Alan Moore

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. — Alan Moore

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. — Alan Moore

The entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all practical intents and purposes this is purely some kind of lightshow that's being put on in the kind of neurons in our brain. The whole of reality. — Alan Moore

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse. — Alan Moore

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

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all that sentimental candyfloss. The next, it leads you somewhere you don't want to go.. Somewhere dark and cold, filled with the damp ambiguous shapes of things you'd hoped were forgotten. — Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore. — Alan Moore

Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. — Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips? — Alan Moore

I did it thirty-five minutes ago. — Alan Moore

None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME. — Alan Moore

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever. — Alan Moore

So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. — Alan Moore

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice. — Alan Moore

Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely. — Alan Moore

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs. — Alan Moore

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust. — Alan Moore

Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical. — Alan Moore

Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape… But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future. — Alan Moore

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

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes. — Alan Moore

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. — Alan Moore

There is no future. There is no past. Do you see? Time is simultaneous, an intricately structured jewel that humans insist on viewing one edge at a time, when the whole design is visible in every facet. — Alan Moore

Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is — Alan Moore

War is a perversion of sex. — Alan Moore

What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty? — Alan Moore

Does the human heart know chasms so abysmal? — Alan Moore

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

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. — Alan Moore

If I have to have a past, then I prefer it to be multiple choice. — Alan Moore

It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing? — Alan Moore

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. — Alan Moore

I leave the human cockroaches to discuss their heroin and child pornography. — Alan Moore

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences. — Alan Moore

Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. — Alan Moore

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. — Alan Moore

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it. — Alan Moore

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore. — Alan Moore

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it. — Alan Moore

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

I thought as much. Miss Murray, though I am a beast, do not think that I am stupid. I know that I am hideous and hateful. I am not loved, nor ever hope to be. Nor am I fool enough to think that what I feel for you is love. But in this world, alone, I do not hate you. And alone in this world, you do not hate me. — Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. — Alan Moore

I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes. — Alan Moore

To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself. — Alan Moore

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point. — Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other. — Alan Moore

I am not saying people should not be free to join whichever reason they choose but should we be forced to live our lives around a belief system that originated somewhere around the fourth or fifth century BC. I cannot see any more reason to base a belief system around Christianity, Judaism or Islam than I can around Lord of the Rings. — Alan Moore

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. — Alan Moore

The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws. — Alan Moore

There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes. — Alan Moore

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead. — Alan Moore

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite. — Alan Moore

Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely honest. You can tell this, because it comes right out and says, "I'm a Liar," right there on the dust jacket. — Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me. — Alan Moore

I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time. — Alan Moore

This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? — Alan Moore

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman. — Alan Moore

I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way. — Alan Moore

Life Lessons by Alan Moore

1. Alan Moore's work emphasizes the power of imagination and creativity, showing that it can be used to explore complex themes and create compelling stories.
2. He also teaches us to embrace the unknown and to think outside the box, as his works often challenge the conventions of traditional storytelling.
3. Finally, Moore's work encourages us to look at the world around us with a critical eye, as his stories often explore the darker sides of humanity and our society.