Alan Moore Quotes

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

I hear them saying, "You'll never change things, and no matter what you do it's still the same thing." But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.

The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.

We can make an impression on this world if the world doesn't make too much impression on us.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.

In silence - and in self-defense - I figured things out in my own little way.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.

Through life's ups and downs, and the few mistakes we make and all the successes that we get, let nobody - nobody's opinion - define who you are. And if anybody defines who you are, let it be yourself.

Of all the things I feel, I do not feel myself to be a victim - not in any collectively accessible way.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

They can give you all the pills on earth and do whatever - and you're still yourself.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

I have preserved my identity, put its credibility to the test and defended my dignity. What good this will bring the world I don't know. But for me it is good.

If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.

But regardless of our circumstances, they do not define us - not unless we give in and let them. Circumstances never determine who we are; they reveal who we are.

Do you know when you may concede your insignificance? Before God or, perhaps, before the intellect, beauty, or nature, but not before people. Among people, one must be conscious of one's dignity.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

You can't lose yourself.