Laurie Juspeczyk: Everyone will die! Jon Osterman: And the universe will not even notice.
Laurie Juspeczyk: Do you remember that crazy guy? What did he call himself... Captain Carnage. The one who used to pretend he was a supervillain just so he could get beaten up all the time? Dan Dreiberg: Yeah, he tried that on me once. I just walked ...
Dan Dreiberg: What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream? Edward Blake: "What happened to the American Dream?" It came true! You're lookin' at it...
Jon Osterman: What is this? Another ultimate weapon? Adrian Veidt: Yes. You could say that. [Veidt turns on TVs with remote]
Rorschach: [voiceover] Rorschach's journal, October 13th, 1985. 8:30 PM. Meeting with Dreiberg left bad taste in mouth. A flabby failure who sits whimpering in his basement. Why are so few of us left active, healthy, and without personality disorders...
Laurie Juspeczyk: The most powerful thing in the universe... still just a puppet. Jon Osterman: We are all puppets, Laurie. I'm just the puppet who can see the strings.
Jon Osterman: I am looking at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars is their old photographs.
Sally Jupiter: I'm 67 years old. Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. But the past... even the grimy parts of it... keep on getting brighter.
Rorschach: We need to squeeze people. Dan Dreiberg: [sarcastic] Sure. We'll pick them out of a phone book. Rorschach: You forgot how we do things, Daniel. You've gotten too soft. Too trusting. Especially with women. Dan Dreiberg: No, listen, I am thr...
Rorschach: [examining psychiatrist's inkblot test] A pretty butterfly.
Janet Black: Doctor Manhattan as you know the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction, midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. As of now it stands at four minutes to midnight. Would you agree t...
Dr. Manhattan: I feel fear, for the last time.
Dan Dreiberg: I'm not the one still hiding behind a mask. Rorschach: No. You're hiding in plain sight.
[Laurie and Dan are breaking Rorschach out of prison] Rorschach: Need to visit men's room. Laurie Juspeczyk: Oh, Christ!
Adrian Veidt: Dan. A world united in peace... there had to be sacrifice. Dan Dreiberg: No! You haven't idealized mankind but you've... you've deformed it! You mutilated it. That's your legacy. That's the real practical joke.
Detective Fine: [From outside Moloch's apartment] Rorschach! This is the police, we know you're in there. Rorschach: No! No! Detective Fine: [From outside Moloch's apartment] If there's anybody in there with you, send 'em out unharmed. Rorschach: No!...
[repeated line] Edward Blake: This is a joke. This is all a joke.
[Looking at psychiatrist's ink blot, remembering being bullied] Rorschach: Clouds.
