Top 38 Dystopian Future Quotes
#1. It's unfortunate that your offspring make people wish for a dystopian future in which euthanasia is a universally beloved form of birth control, but when elderly women literally everywhere are better parents than you, perhaps it's time to hang up the baby-making spurs.
Neil Hilborn
#2. The geographer and politician Edwin Brooks argued more than 40 years ago that what we had to avoid was a dystopian future of a 'crowded glowering planet of massive inequalities of wealth buttressed by stark force and endlessly threatened by desperate men in the global ghettoes'.2 These
Paul Rogers
#3. Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
Charlie Jane Anders
#4. Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force.
Anne Fortier
#5. Devoid of any real liberty or justice, America and her children had fallen prey to what amounted to little more than a thinly veiled dictatorship. She now represented not the proud citadel of freedom, but the failed experiment of democracy.
Eric J. Martindale
#6. I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.
Rachel Platten
#7. It doesn't matter if Red hears my threats. He won't get close enough to do anything about it. I'll kill him before he's ever close enough for me to smell him.
Quoleena Sbrocca
#8. Someday all the wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty houses and trim gardens and planned parks and forests, and a world that works as smoothly as a clock, neatly wound: a world of metal and gears, and people going tick-tick-tick to their deaths.
Lauren Oliver
#9. My romantic history since arriving on Novo has been non-existent, but I don't know what, if anything, came before; thanks to the government's cerebral pilfering.
Siobhan Davis
#10. I didn't really comprehend what was happening or how tonight had changed us and the course of our future, but I instinctively knew that things would never be the same again. Something had ended and something was definitely beginning, I just didn't have the knowledge base to know what.
J.M. Northup
#11. If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
Jonny Greenwood
#13. Mortal has not been a habitable place for a long time. We have been trying to survive patching it but one day it will break completely. Twinmortal is the future for all of us. You will achieve that future for us by learning has much as you can.
Carolina Cody Aldaz
#14. Trouble was, they didn't have much faith to begin with. Their dreams had gone from the beaches of Arilland to the palace ballroom and no further. Faith was a thing sewn into the patchwork skirts of a girl on another shore.
Alethea Kontis
#15. I fell silent after that. I didn't want to talk about such things anymore, at least today. My chest already hurt and I was trying to keep my mind calm. I didn't want to think of a future so bleak and dark. I had plans for my future and they didn't involve the world ending or society collapsing.
J.M. Northup
#16. Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
Lauren DeStefano
#17. It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.
Rodney Mullen
#18. But the future is uncertain, and he can't get up enough enthusiasm even to masurbate.
M.R. Carey
#19. Should I get more butter?"
"Shut up, Eadlyn,
Kiera Cass
#20. They filled our world with weapons aimed at foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future. They killed those strong enough to fight back and locked up the freaks who failed to live up to their utopian expectations.
Tahereh Mafi
#21. It seems like I have lived a lifetime in just one day.
Siobhan Davis
#22. A saccharine, sentimental drip ran down my throat, and I was blinded by how stupid I had been not to see that everything was absolutely, one hundred percent going to be okay.
Stephanie Danler
#23. We're going to be on the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to be running a colony almost,
Paul Bremer
#24. If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.
Alexandar Tomov
#25. You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
Nikola Tesla
#26. Complaining is a sign that someone isn't willing to risk moving on a changeable situation, or won't consider the immutable circumstance in his or her plans.
David Allen
#27. At the core of 'Star Trek' is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future. So much of science-fiction is about a dystopian society with human civilization having crumbled. He had an affirmative, shining, positive view of the future.
George Takei
#28. And if someone dies by my hand, I won't lie to myself by believing I'm better than that.
Quoleena Sbrocca
#30. Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
Lauren Oliver
#31. They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.
Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
#32. Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
Tom Robbins
#34. And it occurs to me that there's no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it's just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead
Rick Yancey
#36. I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there.
Sean Connery
#37. For its speculations to be taken seriously, dystopian fiction must be part of a discussion of contemporary society, a projection of ongoing political failures perhaps, or the wringing of present jeopardy for future disaster.
Sarah Hall
#38. Someone who doesn't know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.
Shannon A. Thompson
