Watchmen Quotes

“‘You’re young, you don’t know. Things change. What happened, happened forty years ago. It’s history.‘”

“I understood what innocent intent had brought me to, and ... waded out beyond my depth.”

“We’re all puppets, Laurie. I’m just a puppet who can see the strings.”

“One more body amongst foundations makes little difference.”

“Down those stairs! I knew he had something hidden back there from his attitude”

“We do it because we are compelled.”

“Needing nothing, I burned with the paradoxical urge to do everything.”

“I’m just scared because everything feels weird. It’s as if everything’s changed. Not just you: everything!”

“Part of ... being a hero is knowing when you don’t need to be one anymore.”

“The morality of my activities escapes me.”

“We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan.”

“Every day the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time”

“Could all be lies. Could all be part of revenge scheme, planned during his decade behind bars. But if true, then what? […] Never mind. Answers soon. Nothing is insoluble.”

“Failing to prevent Earth’s salvation is your only triumph”

“What are you doing here, Rorschach? This is a Government base and I hear you’re wanted by the police?”

“Once a man has seen, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend it doesn’t exist. No matter who orders him to look the other way”

“I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us, all we ever see of stars are their old photographs.”

“I abandoned my disguise and became myself, free from fear or weakness or lust.”

“Evil must be punished. Even in the face of Armageddon I shall not compromise.”

“We’re both leftovers”