Brian Azzarello > Quotes

“Imagination is just what others use to get things they can't understand into their heads. Rarely – if ever – do they actually fit there.
-Hermes”
― Brian Azzarello, Wonder Woman, Volume 1: Blood

“Loop, you shot him in the head... Fuck yeah he dead.”
― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 3: Hang Up on the Hang Low

“The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?”
― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 8: The Hard Way

“You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on.”
― Brian Azzarello

“Keep your right up or there'll be nothing left of you." - 100 Bullets

I love this quote because it has double meaning.”
― Brian Azzarello, Eduardo Risso

“You can forget ya keys or ya wallet, the first girl ya kissed, hell- even my birthday, but you'll never forget me.”
― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 4: A Foregone Tomorrow

“Passive...Aggressive...Pussy.”
― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets: The Deluxe Edition Book IV

“You know what happens when you ask too many questions, Dizzy? Someone will ultimately tell you to shut the fuck up. (Mr. Branch)”
― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 2: Split Second Chance

“And that to me is something. Coming to an understanding of who you are in the midst of discovering who you aren't.”
― Brian Azzarello

“Joker: I don't mind you saying that, Johnny. Sometimes, I need to hear the obvious... now is not one of those times, though.”
― Brian Azzarello, Joker

“After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.”
― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 5: The Counterfifth Detective

“I have failed you. You came to me asking for help with your pain, but your pain is beyond my abilities.”
― Brian Azzarello

“I once saw a dead man. Actually, i've seen many dead men. Too many for most. But this one, i've carried with me. Was a car wreck... The driver, he was the dead man. Had a bullet hole in his temple. Shot from the inside of car or out, didn't matter. His hat, though, was one of those mesh hats, with the puffy front. Like a trucker wears. Anyway, written on the hat was: "Shit happens." The epitaph of humanity's gravestone. Shit happens. A neat little bow over a pine box of waste. What a metaphor for life.”
― Brian Azzarello, 100 Bullets, Vol. 10: Decayed

“Chicago? It caught fire over a hundred years ago... an' no one's ever bothered to put it out.”
― Brain Azzarello

“Such a sad little boy.

But sadness begets madness....right MAD little boy?

Then badness. Such a BAD little boy.

Easier emotions to live with.”
― Brian Azzarello, Batman: Damned

“Those red eyes, I'm sure they look right through me like I am nothing more than a nuisance. But when I see you, I see something no man can ever be. I see the end. The end of our potential. The end of our achievements. The end of our dreams. You are my nightmare.”
― Brian Azzarello, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel

“Us living, y'know what we share--as in all HAVE, an' share?

As in all GIVE?

PAIN.

We hurt. A commonality we experience completely ALONE.

Which leads to the proverbial lies. What we mutter an' not just to ourselves, to keep the bullet out of the mouth. Such as, "what don' kill us, makes us stronger" ...A JOKE.

What don' kill us eats us ALIVE. Body. And soul.”
― Brian Azzarello, Batman: Damned

“You know you are involved with a sick man who will see you die? He will stand over your body, with your blood on his hands and I promise you he will laugh... not because your life means nothing to him -- but because death, for him -- is the punch line.”
― Brian Azzarello

“Is failure part of his DNA?

See, the world has utterly FAILED him. Doesn't it stand to reason that his standard is so high that he can't help but FAIL himself?

To be so relentlessly driven that FAILURE is met violently, well, it must be tiring.”
― Brian Azzarello, Batman: Damned

“Evil, it's real, and its coils wind around every heart that beats.

The devil, he admits what the angels won't...

God is INSANE.”
― Brian Azzarello, Batman: Damned