Quotes from From Hell

Alan Moore ·  576 pages

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“I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


“The one place Gods inarguably exist is in our minds where they are real beyond refute, in all their grandeur and monstrosity.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


“Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction:

Simply to participate.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


“I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart.
I am rain.
I cannot be contained”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


“Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart...
...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell



“Invoke not reason. In the end it is too small a deity.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


“Murder, other than in the most strict forensic sense, is never soluble. That dark human clot can never melt into a lucid, clear suspension. Our detective fiction tells us otherwise: everything is just meat and cold ballistics. Provide a murderer, a motive and a means, and you have solved the crime. Using this method, the solution to the Second World War is as follows: Hitler. The German economy. Tanks. Thus, for convenience, we reduce the complex events.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


“Los símbolos tiene poder, Netley... Poder suficiente como para retorcerle el estómago incluso a alguien como tú... O como para relegar a la mitad de este planeta a la esclavitud.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


“There never was a Jack the Ripper. Mary Kelly was just an unusually determined suicide. Why don't we leave it there.”
― Alan Moore, quote from From Hell


About the author

Alan Moore
Born place: in Northampton, England, The United Kingdom
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