Top 72 Robert Kirkman Quotes
#1. Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.
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#3. As the Lady from Borneo digs out his eyeball, the thing eventually uncorks from its socket.
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#5. 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)
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#6. I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.
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#7. Now get the fuck up off the ground so I can put you in it... like a coffin. Because you'll be fucking dead after I kill you, you fucking asshole.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.
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#10. I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight.
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#11. You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.
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#12. It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.
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#14. Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us.
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#15. Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living?
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#16. I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun!
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#17. I guess in all of the obvious ways. I can afford more diapers for my children. If I want to buy a complete set of Garbage Pail Kids on Ebay I don't have to ask my wife so hard. For the most part, it's mostly the same. I keep my head down and I just work on comics for most of the time.
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#19. It's never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever.
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#20. I'm going and I'm not going to die. I'm going to prove to you that you're not the only one who survives.
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#21. Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.
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#22. 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
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#23. Chaos theory is the impossibility of a closed system remaining stable. This town is doomed. There's nobody at the controls ...
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#24. It ain't the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here ... it's the living.
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#25. In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.
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#27. Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well.
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#28. I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
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#29. An elderly camper realizes, with heart-skipping dismay, that during his afternoon bowel movement, he is unwittingly shitting on a zombie.
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#30. I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel.
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#31. I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.
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#32. Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.
They're fucking with the wrong people.
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#33. If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.
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#34. 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?
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#35. I came "here" to get "there." Do I have any fucking clue what "there" is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just trying to live in a world of the dead.
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#37. I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.
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#38. I WILL SKULL-FUCK EVERY ONE OF YOU CANNIBAL-COCKSUCKERS!!! I WILL RIP EVERY STINKING HEAD OFF EVERY FUCKING ONE OF YOU AND SHIT DOWN YOUR ROTTEN FUCKING NECKS
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#39. Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.
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#40. 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.
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#41. Our fine Governor called me here to ask me to talk to you
said you didn't seem too happy here. He knows we're pals. He wanted me to just
I don't know, make sure you weren't going to cause any trouble or something.
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#42. I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit.
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#43. 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.
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#44. I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.
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#45. 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.
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#46. It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.
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#49. I saw thousands of them. A sea of the dead that roared like an ocean! You would have heard them screaming toward you. It would have taken days to steer them away. Killing them? I don't think killing them would have been possible.
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#50. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
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#51. Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.
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#52. I just want my brother back.-Daryl (to Maryl)
the Walking Dead S3
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#53. I like good stories above all else ... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.
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#54. 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!
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#55. 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.
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#56. I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care ... didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter.
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#57. Don't be such a crybaby. The fucking world ended. Everyone's mother is dead, you pussy. Besides... we're on our way to talk to the people who cut you mom's head off... have some motherfucking perspective.
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#58. I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.
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#59. He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. - Nietzsche
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#60. I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale
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#61. He closes his right eye and peers down the barrel with his left and fires. Lilly doesn't jerk at the noise - not
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#62. 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.
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#63. I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up.
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#64. This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you've seen that before, you haven't. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people.
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#65. I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.
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#66. Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT
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#67. I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it ... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics.
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#68. The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.
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#69. The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers ...
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#70. 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.
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#71. I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
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#72. The deaths in this series are never taken lightly, they're never done with a sense of glee. They weigh on me the same way they weigh on you. These characters are very real to me, and their deaths are upsetting even to me.
(The Walking Dead #167: "A Certain Doom")
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