Best Rorschach Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and whisper: 'No.”

Source: Watchmen

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Source: Doomsday Clock #9: Crisis

“I wanted to kind of make this like, 'Yeah, this is what Batman would be in the real world'. But I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans, that smelling, not having a girlfriend—these are actually kind of heroic! So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. I meant him to be a bad example. But I have people come up to me in the street saying, "I am Rorschach! That is my story!' And I'll be thinking: 'Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me, never come anywhere near me again as long as I live'?”

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Author:Alan Moore

“My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they’re being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what’s behind their eyes.”

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Book:The Contortionist's Handbook

Source: The Contortionist's Handbook

“A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.”

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Author:Margo Kaufman

“Reality is the original Rorschach.”

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Book:Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger

Source: Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger

“I wanted to make a massive work so as soon as Nick Mitzevich invited me I said yes straight away and began to make the work. The island was made in direct response. I used the diagnostic tool of Rorschach blots - something designed to extract and evaluate the dark and unconscious elements of our personality.”

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Author:Ben Quilty

“[When the Gospel seems to be interpreted in different ways] is the obvious challenge, perhaps even danger, here. By its very nature as a custodial office, the papacy can't be a Rorschach test, into which people read whatever they like - whatever they fear or hope for.”

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Author:George Weigel

“No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?”

I Can Can Do Cities Dying Lips Wipe Foam Rabies Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.”

Green Glasses Bottles Coke Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”

Locked Locked Up Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn't the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.”

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Author:Alan Moore

“No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?”

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Book:One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

“History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.”

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Book:Revolution

Source: Revolution

“Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.”

Hopeless Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”

Knows Men Reality Dear Ink Rorschach

Author:Alan Watts

“Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners. Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them? Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.”

Used Happened Yeah Partners Quitting Great Times Back When Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.”

Said Eye Mother His Eyes Rorschach Latex

Author:Alan Moore

“Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.”

Men Turns Black Like You Rorschach

Author:Alan Moore

“At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table”

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Author:Christie Hefner

“Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.”

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Author:John Battelle

“Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.”

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Author:Susan Jane Gilman

“The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered. Reality is the original Rorschach. Verily! So much for all that.”

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Book:Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger

Source: Principia Discordia: The Magnum Opiate of, Malaclypse the Younger

“What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself”

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Author:Lewis Mumford

“I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116)”

Source: The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras

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