Michael Moorcock Quotes

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Michael Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is a prolific British writer and editor, long known for his SF and fantasy works and now also for literary novels.

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She was a sharp-jawed, pout-lipped maiden and her eyes were green as scum.

She was a sharp-jawed, pout-lipped beauty and her eyes were green as scum.

The Golden Barge (1979)

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

The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

Phoenix in Obsidian (1970)

I do not know. That is the only real truth, Shaarilla. I do not know.

The Weird of the White Wolf (1977)

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.

The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)

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

The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)

He realised that Law and Order were not particularly compatible.

The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius (1976)

I realized I was fulfilling mankind’s greatest dream—to fly like a bird, as naturally and as joyously as if the air were our familiar habitat.

The Steel Tsar (1981)

“Entropy’s setting in. Or so they say.”
“Why should that be true?”
“It’s Time—it’s all used up.”
“This is metaphysical nonsense!”
“Very likely.”

The Final Programme (1968)

Time to be moving; moves to be timing.

A Cure for Cancer (1971)

“It takes little intelligence to draw the obvious conclusion...”
“Especially if one is blessed with only the barest information concerning other lands and peoples.”

The Fortress of the Pearl (1989)

Indeed, to be a hero, forever at war, is to be in some ways always a child. The true challenge comes in making sense of one’s life, of imbuing it with purpose based on one’s own principles.

The Dragon in the Sword (1986)

The English, I now know, eat mashed fish and deviled sheep’s hearts to guarantee a bad digestion (and consequent irritability). It is their abominable cooking which has given them half the world as their Empire.

The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn’t the people at the bottom think the same?

The Eternal Champion (1970)

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!

The City in the Autumn Stars (1986)

Again this is an old question, a bit trite from being asked too often, maybe, but how much of what we believe is true and how much is what we wish were true.

Elric at the End of Time (1985)

And upon those three lies was Elric’s destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

Elric of Melniboné (1972)

I have learned from my experiences that hatred and racial antagonism can be manufactured by the politicians of any one country against any other, so I was no longer the patriot I had been.

The Steel Tsar (1981)

From beyond the door came the sound of people at prayer, led by the droning voices of the priests. Even the plane seemed to be praying. Una went to find a parachute before they reached Windermere.

The English Assassin (1972)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Moorcock (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.