Zombie Apocalypse Quotes

“I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They're worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

“The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else's hands, ready to be crushed at any moment? Ordinary-looking people are far superior, because they are forced to actually work hard to achieve their goals, instead of expecting people to fall all over themselves to help them.”
― J. Cornell Michel, Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution

“Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

“What I learned in this tragedy was the eternal lesson of good people going bad.”
― Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead

“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So she lies there kicking her fat legs against the footboard of the crib, eternally calling for her mother. For food. For flesh.”
― Carrie Ryan, The Forest of Hands and Teeth

“It ain’t how hard you are when you’re standing over top of someone that really matters. It’s how hard you are when someone’s standing over top of you that shows what you’re made of.”
― Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem

“Holy shit." Rehv shook his head and muttered, "Now we know what the zombie apocalypse looks like.”
― J.R. Ward, The King

“You can’t get the blood out.”
― Steven Ramirez, Tell Me When I'm Dead

“Alice is fictional. This isn't.”
― Jess C. Scott, Zombie Mania: A Zombie Apocalypse Parody

“When it's my time, and the reaper calls my name, there will be no stink of fear on me, and my only wish will be to die with grace, covered in the blood of my enemies.”
― Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem

“This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is what they want but when the truth disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse that only wants to destroy civilization.”
― Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

“Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.”
― Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem

“When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.”
― Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem

“... Have you considered that maybe this is the birth of a new world, that what happens next is a golden opportunity to change the nature of man in a fundamental way?”
“Those are brave words, Tiresias.”
“New parents can’t afford to be anything but brave, Eddie.”
― Joe McKinney, Dead City

“You take all of our pain, you are the spine. You are the blood soaked rag that holds closed the wounds in our soul.”
― Cedric Nye, The Road to Hell is Paved With Zombies

“She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew that there would never be anything that could quench those fires except death. Vanessa knew that Jango had become his own Grim Reaper.”
― Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem

“Mothers don’t fight to win. They fight because the end of the world is behind them, not ahead.”
― Biale Drageo , The One Who Refused to Feed: The Real Horror Is What You Can't Forget

“I have to get stronger, harder, and faster. The only way to get hard enough to walk the Apocalypse Road is in the crucible of battle.”
― Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem

“Everything will be fine,” she told herself. “I will not let you die so easily.”
–Choice by E. L. Schoeman”
― E.L. Schoeman, Choice

“Call them whatever you like: Walkers, the living-dead, the undead, biters, flesh eaters. It's a zombie.”
― Harper Wolf, Outbreak Z

“Somehow those who get the chance to do something good in the end manage it.”
― Harper Wolf, Outbreak Z

“Weißt du, diese ganzen Small-talk Fragen, sie funktionieren nicht mehr. Hast du Kinder? Wo leben deine Eltern? Was macht dein Mann? Wie viele Brüder und Schwestern hast du? Sport, Wetter, Arbeit... Die ganze Palette. Es funktioniert einfach nicht mehr. Aber die Macht der Gewohnheit, nicht wahr? (Lori)”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 4: The Heart's Desire

“Keep moving. Don’t think. Not about the loss of humanity, the loss of everything. Think only about living, about surviving and continuing one’s legacy. Ignore the bad and look forward. Keep yourself alive until you can’t.”
― L. J., Meraki: A Writing Collection

“Well...” She’d never had a survivor before. Ever. She wasn’t trained how to deal with those, she was only trained how to deal with things. “Later.”
“Wait.” He was up and following her. “What’s your name?”
Walking faster, she didn’t turn around. “None of your damn business.”
“Can I call you ‘NYDB’ for short?”
― E.L. Schoeman, Choice

“What’s with all the smartass guys lately?”
― E.L. Schoeman, Choice

“Go that way!” Deacon panicked, and since Choice was a little panicked herself, she obeyed.
Because Deacon would know where he’s going, right?
They drove straight, and into a dead end.
“Why would you listen to me?” Deacon cried just before Choice was going to tell him that she was never going to listen to him ever again if they lived through this.”
― E.L. Schoeman, Choice

“I tell you the only real mystery in life is why every woman on this planet isn't a lesbian.”
― Joe McKinney, Mutated

“I love my sister because if I was ever bit by a zombie, she'd shoot me between the eyes before i could register being bitten.”
― Eddie Mumford

“Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez buried her mother on Wednesday. And again on Friday.
This was the world and that's how it was.”
― Johnathan Maberry

“Has the world, and not just its people, lost its soul through immobility, laziness, and living a zombified half-life doomscrolling through virtual reality? Is our own ‘intelligence’ becoming more and more artificial as we literally ossify in front of our screens?

If you’re having trouble answering such questions, maybe you should ask Siri.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality