Quotes about zombie
Graham Parke -
My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective I fully intend to die in the very first wave.Seems more logical than undergoing all kinds of hardships only to die eventually anyway (through bites/malnutrition/or terminally chapped lips)
Charlie Jane Anders - Love Hurts: A Speculative Fiction Anthology
When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire
Mark Tufo - An Old Beginning
If you can't beat em. Become as crazy as a fuckin' loon and enjoy the ride.
Alexander Fontana -
He is about as well-put-together and focused as a zombie at a tractor pull.
Rodney Jenkins -
I had a dream about you; you were a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world. I was the only human left, you tried to bite me and I said no. We became good friends.
Terry Pratchett - Witches Abroad
Granny looked up at the zombie. He was - or, technically, had been - a tall, handsome man. He still was, only now he looked like someone who had walked through a room full of cobwebs.'What's your name, dead man?' she said.
Rick Yancey - The Infinite Sea
They made a major mistake," he blurted out, "the dumb bastards, when they didn't start by killing you first.""Benjamin Thomas Parish, that was the sweetest and most bizarre compliment anyone's ever given me."I kissed him on the cheek. He kissed me on the mouth."You know," I whispered, "a year ago, I would have sold my soul for that."He shook his head. "Not worth it." And, for one-ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben
Drew Hayes - the Vampire Accountant
You’re a good man who happens to be a vampire. We aren’t human, but that doesn’t make us monsters.
Tyler Edwards -
When we neglect our Bible study we often feel guilty. When you skip a meal do you feel guilty? No, you feel hungry. The Bible is food for our soul. When we fail to read it we should not feel guilty, we should feel hungry. Guilt is fueled by obligation hunger is fueled by desire.
Tom Perrotta - The Leftovers
These days he was like a zombie, all grim business, just another jerk with an erection.
Lia Habel - Departed
I was terribly, painfully present in the world, and so far removed from it.
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.
Forrest Carr - A Journal of the Crazy Year
I killed a couple of people,” Scooter said. “Wanna play cards?
Joseph McGinnis - Dawn of the Apocalypse
Zombies are not just fictional creatures that devour the flesh of the living. They also include those who follow the words of others without thinking for themselves. This world is falling apart. I don’t think anyone can disagree with that. People live in their twenty-mile-radius realities and don’t notice the world happening around them, until it finally breaks down their front door.
Adam P. Knave - Crazy Little Things
You ate my dog, you undead freak!”Hey! Watch the slander. I hear the acceptable term is ‘corporeallychallenged’ now. No need to be rude.
Aaron Marcusson -
I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all.
L. Joseph Shosty - Swallow the Evil
Lionel was filled with awful remorse. He asked where had Thomas been last seen, and the boy told him he was headed for the church. Lionel nodded and went home to fetch his shotgun. Throughout the crisis he had done no violence, preferring to preach the sanity of pacifism to the flock. This was different. This was a requirement of the father to the son. He prayed over the shotgun while Darla wailed with the children in the living room. He got in his truck and drove to the church. -- From "The Sou
Andrew Cormier - Shamblers: the zombie apocalypse
The rumor claims that the shambler virus is now airborne. It can be contracted without getting bitten now.” – character quote
Joseph M. Chiron - Tagged: The Apocalypse
Black vomit came gushing out Samantha’s mouth, adding to the puddle already on the floor. Samantha was covered in a sheen of sweat, crouched on all fours on the wooden hallway floor, like an animal. Her thick yellow fingernails made deep scratches in the wood as her body convulsed with each new expulsion of the black vomit. Her hair was long and thick and full; thicker and fuller than he had ever seen it. It reminded him of a lion’s mane. Her skin was a sickly pale grey with disturbing red boils
Joseph M. Chiron - Tagged: The Apocalypse
He first noticed it on the plane ride. There was an odor about her and it was becoming more pronounced with each passing hour. It was like the smell of rotting meat.
Scott Kaelen - The Lingering Remains
A grey-suited figure with badly-scuffed shoes was squatted over a woman’s body, obscuring her face and upper torso. A loose, white dress; torn, now mostly red. A pattern of rose petals, drenched in blood. One of her sandals was missing, scarlet streaks and spatters on her jade-green polished toenails and pale, slender ankles. Another step took him around the hunched and twitching figure. It ignored him, intent on its work. Then its victim came fully into view … and he saw her ruined face.
Cornell Woolrich - The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
The glove comes off, flops loosely over, and there's suddenly horror beating into his brain, smashing, pounding, battering. He reels a little in his chair, has to hold onto the edge of the table with both hands, at the impact of it.A clawlike thing - two of the finger extremities already bare of flesh as far as the second joint; two more with only shriveled, bloodless, rotting remnants of it adhering, only the thumb intact, and that already unhealthy-looking, flabby. A dead hand - the hand of a
T.M. Williams - Undead Winter
Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had a future.
Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever.
Sage R Fury -
Black Friday – (AKA Zombie Apocalypse)Is an event of subset half-dead human like beings confronted with ravenous bloodthirsty monsters preparing to pummel down the doors mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving Day.
Rachel Caine - Last Breath
Well," he said, "I think we've found our way in. We just wait until they're duking it out, but trust me, these Humans First types don't have a lot of staying power or they'd have been at the gym with me before. I doubt Grandma Kent there is going to do a lot of damage." He pointed at a gray-haired, hunched lady in a shawl, carrying what looked liked a gardening tool. "It's like Plants Versus Zombies, and I'm not rooting for the zombies, weirdly enough.
Stephen Demone - After the End
It is said that there exist parallel worlds in which all other possible realities occur. Every decision we could ever make exists as a unique reality in which that decision is made. Of course you can imagine that the possibilities existing for any single person are immense. But what about the facts? What really happens. Since this really depends on others, what you get is... it. Limited. It. This is it.
Freddy Sakazaki - Land of the Rising Dead: A Tokyo School Girl's Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse
In America, they have this thing called a story cycle. When they're at war, they start doing fantasy and war-style entertainment. When fantasy gets big, they go through a recession, and horror starts gaining popularity. When horror gets popular, mystery starts gaining popularity. Then when mystery reaches its peak, science fiction starts gaining popularity. Then things get rough again, and we go back to Fantasy". This quote was taken from an interview from The Myth of Cthulhu: Dark Navigation.
Lia Habel - Departed
What about mold," Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.
Mira Grant - Countdown
There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.
Molly Looby - ZA
People say talking to yourself is the first sign of madness. It's not. It's eye bloody spy.
Nicki Elson - Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
In you, she saw hope.”“You mean she saw his next meal.
Molly Looby - ZA
You know what would be awesome? . . . If I could have a machete.
Nicki Elson - Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.
Molly Looby - ZA
He IS just a normal boy.
Nicki Elson - Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
Son of a Merryweather, he’s a lot stronger than he looks.
Shamus McCarty - The Zombie Survival Guide: How To Live Like A King After The Outbreak
When approaching a prospective human, first ask them what their name is. * If it replies "Brains," blow its fucking head off. * If it replies "Brian," ask it again, as you may have encountered a zombie with a speech impediment, or a zombie that was mildly retarded in life. * Keep in mind that it is entirely possible that you did encounter a human named "Brian.
Joseph M. Chiron - Tagged: The Apocalypse
Then she was there in the doorway of the ambulance at his feet. She jumped up like a lion, then stood up on two feet like a human. Her hair was thick and full. She had a mouthful of giant teeth. He could see four pronounced canines in the front and strong claws where her fingernails had been. Her strong body was shriveled and emaciated with her ribs and hip bones sticking out prominently like a concentration camp victim. Her stench was overpowering, like a deer carcass left to rot on the side of
Colson Whitehead - Zone One
Nowdays, Rosie the Rivetere was a former soccer mom who had just opened her own catering business when Last Night came down and her husband and kids were eaten by a parking attendant at the local megamall’s discount- appliance emporium.
Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave
Zombie!” Sammy calls. “I knew it was you.”Zombie?“Where are you taking him?” Ben says to me in a deep voice. I don’t remember it being that deep. Is my memory bad or is he lowering it on purpose, to sound older?“Zombie, that’s Cassie,” Sam chides him. “You know—Cassie.”“Cassie?” Like he’s never heard the name before.“Zombie?” I say, because I really haven’t heard that name before.I pull off the cap, thinking it might help him recognize me, then immediately regret it. I know what my hair must loo
VicDo -
The absence of wish, to analysis yourself, the surrounding world, and what you are doing. Is the logical, and philosophical proof, of zombie mind, and consciousness.
Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave
I give her my best smile. Before the alien Armageddon happened, I was known for my smile. Not bragging too much, but I had to be careful never to smile while I drove. It had the capacity to blind oncoming traffic. But it has absolutely no effect on Ringer. She doesn't squint in its overwhelming luminescence. She doesn't even blink.
Nathan Reese Maher -
Cry no tears for us, my friend.” I pry at her fingers, panicking to be released in fear that she may drag me into death with her. She croaks again, “Lend no aches to the dreams of yesterday.” From the corpse of Warren, his greyish gums smack from whatever goo has settled in his mouth, “Allow the tide sweep free the bay.” Then together they sing in zombie choir, “And home the ships sailing send.
Andrew Cormier - Shamblers: the zombie apocalypse
We’re trying to rebuild society, not plunge it back into chaos.” – character quote
Andrew Cormier - Shamblers: the zombie apocalypse
I had watched him single handedly rip the head off a zombie as he had simultaneously prayed for its soul. When you witness a man do something like that, it changes your perception of them.
Lia Habel - Departed
No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.
David Donaghe -
What we are about to have here is a holy water smack down!
Thomas Ligotti - Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
While horror may make us squirm or quake, it will not make us cry at the pity of things. The vampire may symbolize our horror of both life and death, but none of us has ever been uprooted by a symbol. The zombie may conceptualize our sickness of the flesh and its appetites, but no one has ever been sickened to death by a concept.
Richard Matheson -
And suddenly he thought, I'm the abnormal one now. Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.
Jesse Petersen - Married with Zombies
I should have known that having "end of the world" sex wouldn't solve our problems. Though, it was pretty great and I highly recommend it.
Ellie Lieberman - Solving for X
Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could they believe anything they did would matter?
James Schannep - Infected
And on the eighth day, Satan laughed.
J. N. Morgan -
If you're not learning how to live off the land, then you're only learning how to survive in the short-term. (During a conversation with someone in regards to surviving a zombie apocalypse, 2017)
Max Brooks - The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not require food,ammunition, or medical attention. It will not succumb to panic, desertion, or out-and-out mutiny. Like the virus that gave it life, this undead force will continue to grow, spreading across the body of this planet until there is nothing left to devour. Where would you go? What would you do?
Rick Yancey - The 5th Wave
Do you know a way out of here?” I ask Ben. Sammy’s more trusting than I am, but the idea’s worth exploring. Finding the escape pods—if they even exist—has always been the weakest part of my getaway plan.He nods. “Do you?”“I know a way—I just don’t know the way to the way.”“The way to the way? Okay.” He grins. He looks like hell, but the smile hasn’t changed a bit. It lights up the tunnel like a thousand-watt bulb. “I know the way and the way to the way.
Deyth Banger -
The ugly people aren't accepted so far... but so far I don't the problem is ugly thing... it's because they are zombies... so far you can have and a night with a zombie!
Max Brooks - World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.
Susan Dennard - Something Strange and Deadly
There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.
Molly Looby - ZA
It was all about survival. That's all it had ever been about.
Molly Looby - ZA
That's old world stuff. It's the ZA now.
Rachel Caine - Fall of Night
So, been attacked by any vampires yet?""Not one.""Zombies? Giant spiders? Water monsters?"It's been really quiet on the supernatural front""Too bad, 'cause I got attacked by a devil dog. It was not awesome.
J. Cornell Michel - Jordan's Brains: A Zombie Evolution
It's more useful to have someone fear you than respect you.
Daryl Gregory - Raising Stony Mayhall
Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.
Kevin Bacon -
I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.
Simon Pegg -
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
Rick Yancey - The Infinite Sea
And, for one– ten thousandth of a second, all of it fell away, the despair and grief and anger and pain and hunger, and the old Ben Parish rose from the dead. The eyes that impaled. The smile that slayed. In another moment, he would fade, slide back into the new Ben, the one called Zombie, and I understood something I hadn’t before: He was dead, the object of my schoolgirl desires, just as the schoolgirl who desired him was dead.
Adam Silvera - History Is All You Left Me
Then there’s the kind of zombie I’ve become now: the one who has lost everything—his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
Robert Kirkman - Compendium 1
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.
Ellie Lieberman - Solving for X
... she wore a masterpiece smile with smudges of paint and graphite across her cheek, and her eyes were a Jackson Pollock painting.
Gena Showalter - Alice in Zombieland
Are you suggesting I’m working with thezombies? That I paid them to pretend toattack me so that I’d trick you into letting me join you?”“Did you?” Mr. Holland demanded.“Yeah, okay,” I said in a sugar-sweet tone. “You’re right. I was having dinner with Zombie Carl the other night. You know, steaks, rare, and a bottle of vintage type A. He told me all his secrets, but too bad for you I promised him I wouldn’t tell. In exchange I asked him to gather hisbest undead buddies and stalk me throughmy fri
Jimmy Buffett -
I'd rather die while I'm living than live while I'm dead.
Lia Habel - Departed
Returning my voice to a conversational level, I called back, “Nora, I’m notattempting to embarrass you or single you out. I know you’re capable. But stay behind Chas, okay? You die, you d i e permanently, and for various reasons that we’ve already gotten angsty about together, I don’t want that to happen.”“Okay, okay,” she sighed.“Angsty?” Chas asked. “Ooh! Later, details!”“Yes, later.” With that, I waved the team forward.
Lia Habel - Departed
No, not really. But …” Okay, I couldn’t help but gloat a little. “She likes me.”Samedi didn’t even look at me. “Well of course, you’ve had that bloody uniform on all day. I was half ready to tell you how much I liked you.
Robert Kirkman - Vol. 01: 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.
Stephen Jones - Zombie Apocalypse!
We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.
Nicki Elson - Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella
No amount of wavy blond hair nor evenings spent with her plump lips applying just the right amount of pressure to his various pleasure points could make up for the rotting carcass of a soul that resided beneath all that beauty.
M.R. Carey - The Girl with All the Gifts
But the future is uncertain, and he can't get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.
Steven Magee - Toxic Electricity
The USA radio frequency (RF) radiation industry has turned zombie movies into reality.
Adam Baker - Outpost
Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.
William Styron - Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
The night was blustery and raw, with a chill wet wind blowing down the avenues, and when Rose and I met Françoise and her son and a friend at La Lorraine, a glittering brassiere not far from L'Étoile, rain was descending from the heavens in torrents. Someone in the group, sensing my state of mind, apologized for the evil night, but I recall thinking that even if this were one of those warmly scented and passionate evenings for which Paris is celebrated I would respond like the zombie I had becom
Rae Hachton - Frankie's Monster
The only thing that will ever be real, is this moment,' I turned to the statue, 'when you made me feel alive, when you made me feel real, when I felt like you really love me. Now? I'm just your monster, Frankie. I will always be a monster.
Scott Kaelen - Island in the Sands
A crush of bodies surrounded the featureless monument. The enraged dead clambered atop their ghastly kin. Caiaphas tucked his knees to his chest and hugged his legs tightly, staring at the scores of ragged, flailing hands as they scratched for purchase over the edge of the cylinder. Metal thrummed and thunder roared, filling his head. Now there were words within the deafening roar. “Straaaange,” they seemed to say. “Daaaace…” “Straaaangerrrr…” Then a quick, awful chant: “CAIAPHAS! FOREVER! CA
Ellen Mae Franklin -
Fear is the short road to death and this world, Changed by the flux of decay: Survival is the exception for weary men.From the new book The Waning
Rick Yancey - The Last Star
She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touch her shoulder. Her dark hair brushes the back of my hand. Her dark eyes shine. Their brightness goes all the way down."You found me," she says.I kneel beside her. I take her hand. "I found you"."My back is broken,"she says. "I can't walk."I slide my arms beneath her. "I'll carry you".
Stephanie Mabey -
If I were a zombieI'd never eat your brainI'd just want your heart