Famous Quotes by 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.”

“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.”

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

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask, there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof.

Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Your mind, my friend, is the darkness in which the very stars above shine all the brighter.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

When you watch the waves of change, don’t let them wash over your dreams.

Everything that begins as comedy inevitably ends as mystery.

All culture is simply the slow accumulation of useful or beautiful things, replicated and passed along.

As soon as you realize that everything's a joke, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Magic is art, and art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form, is magic.

Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrid, messy thing where romance and horror and tragedy and comedy are all jumbled together in a grotesque heap.

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

There’s no future in lying to yourself.

The truth is what we make of it; it can never be more than a function of the times we live in.

If you have an idea that’s really worth something, it should keep you awake at night.

The world is rudderless when people believe in nothing greater than themselves.

Most of the people who get into comics are weird or have problems socially. You don’t fit in; comics is full of people who don’t fit in.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

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.