# Michael Moorcock - Quotes: 167 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock ## Books - [A Cure for Cancer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/a-cure-for-cancer.md) — 4 quotes - [Phoenix in Obsidian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/phoenix-in-obsidian.md) — 6 quotes - [The Bull and the Spear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-bull-and-the-spear.md) — 3 quotes - [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md) — 30 quotes - [The Condition of Muzak](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-condition-of-muzak.md) — 12 quotes - [The Dragon in the Sword](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-dragon-in-the-sword.md) — 21 quotes - [The English Assassin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-english-assassin.md) — 4 quotes - [The Eternal Champion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-eternal-champion.md) — 6 quotes - [The Final Programme](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-final-programme.md) — 3 quotes - [The Jewel In The Skull](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-jewel-in-the-skull.md) — 2 quotes - [The King of the Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-king-of-the-swords.md) — 5 quotes - [The Knight of the Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-knight-of-the-swords.md) — 5 quotes - [The Land Leviathan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-land-leviathan.md) — 6 quotes - [The Oak and the Ram](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-oak-and-the-ram.md) — 5 quotes - [The Queen of the Swords](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-queen-of-the-swords.md) — 5 quotes - [The Runestaff](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-runestaff.md) — 5 quotes - [The Steel Tsar](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-steel-tsar.md) — 25 quotes - [The Sundered Worlds](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sundered-worlds.md) — 3 quotes - [The Sword and the Stallion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-and-the-stallion.md) — 3 quotes - [The Sword of the Dawn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-sword-of-the-dawn.md) — 6 quotes - [The Warlord of the Air](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-warlord-of-the-air.md) — 8 quotes ## Recently added quotes > “Are you aware we anticipate the Apocalypse, von Bek?” > > “The obsession’s common enough, Montsorbier, amongst ignorant folk.” p. 377 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/are-you-aware.md) > 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. p. 245 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/the-english-i-now.md) > 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. p. 406 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/you-may-be-abandoned.md) > 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! p. 408 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/youre-as-worthless.md) > I must believe you doomed to eternal life, but also to eternal repetition! Your true doom is simple to me. You lack brains, Sir. p. 376 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/i-must-believe.md) > 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. p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/my-bargain-with.md) > 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? p. 376 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/well-build-a-world.md) > Better wicked Lucifer for a master, thought I, than a pious Tyrant! p. 361 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/better-wicked-lucifer.md) > I had learned, after all, to trust neither religion nor politics and to put my faith in the realities of metal, wood and steam, in practical engineering, whose rules could neither be changed nor made the subject of morality, so why should I show reverence for mere antiquity? p. 262 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/i-had-learned.md) > He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull. p. 407 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/he-had-thought.md) > Do you know what damnation can be, Sir? It can be a state of permanent caution, making one chronically unable to risk anything, even a risk which might save one from extinction. p. 283 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/do-you-know.md) > 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. p. 310 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/warlocks-and-witches.md)