Alan Moore Quotes

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

My films are a reflection of the society I live in, what I see and observe.

When a man is extremely lonely, he starts discovering himself.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers.

Solitude may rust your words.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.

Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.