The Invisibles, Volume 1 Quotes

“Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight of oceans and the turning stars. Whole universes fit in there! But what do we choose to keep in this miraculous cabinet? Little broken things, sad trinkets that we play with over and over. The world turns our key and we play the same little tune again and again and we think that tune's all we are.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

“There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

“Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That's how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can't say, "I am sad," or "I am happy". They understood what we English have long forgot. We're not our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language hypnotizes us and traps us in little labelled boxes.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

“When was the last time you had a thought that wasn't put there by THEM?”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

“Idealists and reformers all become executioners in their turn. The road to utopia ends with the steps of the scaffold, the endless moment of the guillotine.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

“I will rise from the darkness, shining like the morning star.

Illuminated woman am I.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution

“People look at us and see the poor and the mad, but they're looking at us through the bars of their cages. There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.”
― Grant Morrison, The Invisibles, Volume 1: Say You Want a Revolution