Michael Moorcock Quotes

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.

It is the fact of life that a truth emerges out of a conflict between two wrongs.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I say this all the time: All I know is I know nothing at all.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

Certainty always produces questions, uncertainty statements. It is a balancing law of nature.

If the Way is made clear, it is not the Way.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth

If you have a correct statement, then the opposite of a correct statement is of course an incorrect statement, a wrong statement. But when you have a deep truth, then the opposite of a deep truth may again be a deep truth.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

I will never fully understand; that is the nature of such creatures. Or is this Inner Truth now, this that is happening to me? I will wait. I will see. Which it is. Perhaps it is both.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

Sometimes there are no answers.

Windbags can be right. Aphorists can be wrong. It is a tough world.