Rorschach Quotes

“I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this way. We do.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves; go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It's us. Only us.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“I wanted to kind of make this like, 'Yeah, this is what Batman would be in the real world'. But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans, that smelling, not having a girlfriend—these are actually kind of heroic! So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example. But I have people come up to me in the street saying, "I am Rorschach! That is my story!' And I'll be thinking: 'Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me, never come anywhere near me again as long as I live'?”
― Alan Moore

“My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they’re being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what’s behind their eyes.”
― Craig Clevenger, The Contortionist's Handbook

“When it's done, only our enemies leave roses.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Without my face, nobody knows. Nobody knows who I am.”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains...”
― Alan Moore, Watchmen

“You see what you want to see”
― Geoff Johns, Doomsday Clock #9: Crisis