Robert Kirkman > Quotes

“The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers...”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 9: Here We Remain

“The second we put a bullet in the head of one of those undead monsters -- the moment one of us drove a hammer into one of their faces -- or cut a head off. We became what we are! And that's just it. THAT's what it comes down to. You people don't know what we are.

We're surrounded by the DEAD. We're among them -- and when we finally give up we become them! We're living on borrowed time here. Every minute of our life is a minute we steal from them! You see them out there. You KNOW that when we die -- we become them. You think we hide behind walls to protect us from the walking dead?

Don't you get it? We ARE the walking dead! WE are the walking dead.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense

“In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

“To me, the best zombie movies aren’t the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society… and our society’s station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too… but there’s always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye

“Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.
They're fucking with the wrong people.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Book Six

“The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly.”
― Robert Kirkman

“Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense

“Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 14: No Way Out

“You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.”
― Robert Kirkman

“But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead: Compendium One

“You kill -- You die."

That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is -- in most cases, NOW, the way things are -- you kill -- you LIVE.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense

“Can't you just read the directions?”
“I could if I wasn't fueled by testosterone and stupidity, but where's the fun in that?”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead Vol. 7: Calm before

“Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms

“Sun keeps rising. Days keep passing. World keeps spinning. Time, it just keeps moving forward. Weeks, months, even years go by... while you try to make sense of it all. Try to find where you belong. Try to look ahead to a better future. But the truth is the path ahead has only grown darker. It's harder to see. You can feel so lost, so alone, so desperate for something, anything that might show you the way.”
― Robert Kirkman

“Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.

-Carl Grimes”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead #125

“I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun!”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War

“It ain’t the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here … it’s the living.”
― Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor

“Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. "We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna do it by being bigger monsters than they are! You understand? There ain't no philosophy, there ain't no grace, there ain't no mercy, there's only us and them, and all they wanna do is eat our ass! So we're gonna fucking eat them! We're gonna chew 'em up and spit 'em out, and we're gonna survive this thing or I will blow a hole through this whole fucked up world! You follow me? You FOLLOW ME!”
― Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga

“Life hurts a lot more than death. —Jim Morrison”
― Robert Kirkman, The Road to Woodbury

“You think I've been around these fuckers long enough to get comfortable enough to SLEEP ten feet away from them? Not fucking likely. (Axel)”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense

“Your mouth says "No," but your eyes say, "Fuck me until your dick breaks off inside me and fuses into some kind of barbie doll crotch.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms

“This stuff changes people. I just watched my best friend flip out and try to kill me not a couple days ago. I'd never seen anyone act like that...let alone him. I was so shaken by seeing the change in him I almost didn't even realize the danger I was in. I think we've got some good people here...I think we're getting by okay...but honestly...I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.”
― Kirkman, Robert

“On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead #123

“I hope you're at peace. I hope you... I hope you're in heaven, and you fell in love with someone who treats you better than I ever did, and that they're fucking your brains out and then fucking your brains back in after that on a daily basis. I'll always miss you, Lucille. I'm sorry I named a fucking baseball bat after you.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War

“You sick fuck. Tear my pants off, prick. See what I got. I'll knock your fucking teeth out with my swinging dick! Last chance... you force yourself into that woman... and I'll force this knife into your dick hole!”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms

“When my father died... I felt so alone. Then I saw you...and it only made me more sad.

When you look out into the abyss that awaits you as you grow older... You're always looking past your father. He's always there, facing it before you and telling you what to expect, preparing you for what's coming. He's a comfort you grow to...take for granted.

Then when he's gone, it's just you...facing the abyss alone.

See you in the room when he died... It just reminded me that one day you'll feel just as alone and scared as I did in that moment. But for now, you're sleeping...and you're happy... and everything is okay. Right now. In this moment... It almost seems cruel to wake you up.”
― Robert Kirkman, Invincible, Vol. 25: The End of All Things, Part Two

“an elderly camper realizes, with heart-skipping dismay, that during his afternoon bowel movement, he is unwittingly shitting on a zombie.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Road to Woodbury

“Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. "That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.”
― robert kirkman, Rise of the Governor

“It’s never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever.”
― Robert Kirkman, Rise of the Governor

“I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale”
― Robert Kirkman