Top 15 Michael Moorcock Quotes

Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed.

You are martyred, as woman is ever martyred, particularly if she seeks her own power.

You’re as worthless as one of that decrepit mob. Lucifer has rejected you. Now mankind rejects you. Have the good taste, Sir, to accept a fact!

He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull.

You may be abandoned by Satan, Sir, and I abandoned by God, but that does not put us in the same cart, nor even upon the same road.

Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?"
"The obsession's common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.

We’ll build a world where Order shall prevail. A few more deaths are inconsequential, surely, if they guarantee us eternal life and absolute fulfillment?

I must believe you doomed to eternal life, but also to eternal repetition! Your true doom is simple to me. You lack brains, Sir.

My own self-deception at least promised some kind of pleasure. Theirs offered nothing but terror and guilt.

Redefine the terms by which Man views the world, and thus eventually you redefine the world itself.

My bargain with God included the undertaking that I should play no direct part, merely supervise mankind’s self-redemption. Like yourself, my agents are those whose independence of thought is already well-established.

Better wicked Lucifer for a master, thought I, than a pious Tyrant!

I guessed he experienced the terrible confusion of a true solipsist when the outer world impinges.

Destiny was apparently a word describing an individual’s desperate need for certainty.

Warlocks and witches debate to determine how to make their broomsticks fly again. But how shall they ever come together in strength? Even if your ideas had any truth, they’re so frequently, by their very character, at odds. Each claims to hold the key to the only wisdom. That’s where natural philosophers, who do not impose what they need to believe (or at least not so readily!) upon the world, but analyze what they see, have the strong advantage.