Rorschach: I heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Life seems harsh, and cruel. Says he feels all alone in threatening world. Doctor says: "Treatment is simple. The great clown - Pagliacci - is in town. Go see him. That should pic...
Rorschach: None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with *ME*!
Rorschach: [reading from journal] Rorschach's Journal. October 12th, 1985: Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full...
Rorschach: You see, Doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. If God saw what any of us did that night he didn't seem to mind. From then on I knew... God doesn't make the world this w...
Adrian Veidt: I'm not a comic book villain. Do you seriously think I would explain my master stroke to you if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.
Rorschach: Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon. That's always been the difference between us, Daniel.
Dr. Manhattan: She was pregnant. And you gunned her down. Edward Blake: That's right. And you know what, you watched me. You could've turned the gun into steam, the bullets into mercury, the bottle into goddamned snowflakes but you didn't, did you? Y...
Jon Osterman: In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.
[after killing a murderer who begged to be arrested] Rorschach: Men get arrested. Dogs get put down.
Adrian Veidt: It doesn't take a genius to see that the world has problems. Edward Blake: No, but it takes a room full of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle.
Rorschach: Give me back my face!
[last lines] Rorschach: Rorschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York.
Jon Osterman: Will you smile? If I admit I was wrong? Laurie Juspeczyk: About what? Jon Osterman: Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in hum...
Jon Osterman: Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman... did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the Sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they can hardly be said to hav...
Adrian Veidt: I don't mind being the smartest man in the world, I just wish it wasn't this one.
Rorschach: Of course. You must protect Veidt's new utopia. What's one more body amongst the foundations? Well, what are you waiting for? Do it. [Dr. Manhattan hesitates] Rorschach: DO IT!
Edgar Jacobi: I have cancer. Rorschach: What kind of cancer? Edgar Jacobi: Well, you know the kind you eventually get better from? Rorschach: Yes. Edgar Jacobi: Well, that ain't the kind I got.
Edward Blake: Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
