One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.
Alan MooreRead
It's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for... it's all a monstrous, demented gag! So why can't you see the funny side? Why aren't you laughing?
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote suggests that life's struggles and values are ultimately meaningless and can be viewed with humor.
Alan Moore's quote presents a perspective on the absurdity of life, emphasizing that the serious pursuits and values humans cling to are part of a larger, nonsensical joke. It encourages people to adopt a lighter outlook, finding humor in the chaos and absurdity of existence, rather than being bogged down by the weight of life's struggles.
Themes
HumorAbsurdityLifeStruggleValues
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about overcoming adversity.
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All quotes βThe only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: βIn the beginning was the Word.
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My main point about films is that I don't like the adaptation process, and I particularly don't like the modern way of comic book-film adaptations, where, essentially, the central characters are just franchises that can be worked endlessly to no apparent point.
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The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
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When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
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