Top 100 Quotes About Post-apocalyptic
#1. For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.
Jeff Carlson
#2. 'The Hunger Games' takes place in Panem, a country which is part of America. It's post-apocalyptic. There's been a global war. The Panem country is what remains of this hugely destructive war.
Liam Hemsworth
#3. People are writing post-apocalyptic fiction like there's no tomorrow!
Cassandra Page
#4. By now, we're all familiar with the literary post-apocalyptic world's metaphors. The zombies are our anxieties. The vampires are our greed. Our fairies are hope. Our werewolves are ... what again? Something
Taffy Brodesser-Akner
#5. I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native New Zealander and famous film director. The role I was playing was very intense, and they shaved half my hair off. So, I looked like this post-apocalyptic character.
Jay Ryan
#6. I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
Gillian Flynn
#7. What's there to be scared about? A post-apocalyptic city with no government or security, surrounded by a desert and swarming with Cranks. I mean, come on. Don't be a sissy.
James Dashner
#8. I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like 'Mad Max' for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we're heading.
Anthony Daniels
#9. 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.
Rodney Jenkins
#10. Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.
Lisa Gardner
#11. There wasn't much to coo at when driving along a post-apocalyptic motorway. A stalled vehicle here, a mini pile-up there.
Wayne Simmons
#12. A bicycle?" Amos leaned on the breakfast bar. "Sure. They don't need fuel, they don't get sick. Most of the repairs, you can handle on your own. You're looking for post-apocalyptic transportation, bikes are the way to go.
James S.A. Corey
#13. My novel Who Fears Death is a post-apocalyptic novel set in a future Sudan.
Nnedi Okorafor
#14. 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
#15. I always love some sci-fi and any type of post-apocalyptic world idea.
Zach McGowan
#16. The new 'Mad Max' movie takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. I have a small part in 'Mad Max.' I play the old geezer who remembers what steak tasted like.
David Letterman
#17. I think she likes post-apocalyptic fiction so much because she's genuinely happy at the thought that the world might end.
Cath Crowley
#18. In 'Falling Skies,' I was playing a soldier and a fighter, and then, when I was taken captive, you're still in this post-apocalyptic world.
Jessy Schram
#19. It's been said that horror films are experimental forms of art, and I agree. As an actress, you're put in positions and have to experience emotions that are way beyond reality, whether fighting in a post-apocalyptic world or being possessed by the Devil.
Ashley Bell
#20. Asleep, he looks like a bleeding Prince Charming chained in the dungeon. When I was little, I always thought I'd be Cinderella, but I guess this makes me the wicked witch.
But then again, Cinderella didn't live in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by avenging angels.
Susan Ee
#21. post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven asks that question, then it asks another: What would you then try
Anonymous
#22. I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.
Brian K. Vaughan
#23. Laika says I'm not middle of the road. One time she said that I was the road. She said I was her post-apocalyptic highway.
Stefan Mohamed
#24. Post-apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that have already burned. Apocalyptic fiction is about worlds that are burning.
The End is Nigh is about the match.
John Joseph Adams
#25. She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.
Nevil Shute
#26. Were crimes respected? Well, yes. In a sense they were. They gave employment, do you see, to a vast number of people -- policemen, judges, lawyers and such like, who would otherwise have had no place in society.
Frank Baker
#27. What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give the, Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn the, that it could never be Eden?
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#28. When the dust settles and we look back,
will we be okay with what we see?"
End Times Alaska by Craig Martelle
Craig Martelle
#29. You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.
Rick Yancey
#30. There's no god, it's the elements that control this world and everything on it.
Scott A. Butler
#31. Well, for one, you walk around like you're so much better than everyone else. We're all a bunch of soulless animals or somethin' in your eyes, I guess. You're the high and mighty one and I ain't fit to drink your piss.
Michael Monroe
#33. A sullied green "S" stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.
Katherine McIntyre
#34. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.
Michael Monroe
#35. It was as if some great ocean of destruction had rolled its unyielding tide through the city and then, upon its terrible recession, left behind only a shoreline of concrete sand and crushed humanity.
Jay Posey
#36. If I didn't love so damn hard I
wouldn't have someone to risk my life for.
Leslie Lee Sanders
#37. Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It's hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.
Michael Monroe
#38. I look at the sky and the dust that separates us from the stars that will be my home. I breathe in the night air, the rotten night air, and I miss,
I miss,
I miss.
Corinne Duyvis
#39. 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
#40. You've never had someone you love snatched," I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. "Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.
Katherine McIntyre
#41. Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
Alexia Purdy
#42. I haven't been this high-functioning since last century." - Chief Morray, The City Center
Simone Pond
#43. I am like the water that runs over me, immune to permanence, recycling endlessly. I am water; I am life. The form may change, but the substance stays the same. Strike me down and I will rise again. Vincit qui patitur.
Rick Yancey
#44. To take away a woman's ability to walk is one thing; it's quite another to take away her ability to speak. -(Lady Meesha) I Am Lady Sasha -The Journey From Slave to Slave-
Julienne Russell
#45. Memories trickled through the pain as Onyx's eyes travelled down the tar road he knelt on. Its black, sour surface melted into the erratic horizon.
Ronel Van Tonder
#46. Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.
~"Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)
Alexia Purdy
#47. Make me a weapon," I whispered as he pulled away. "Make it so I never have to dream about this again - make it so we can have this ... forever.
Cassandra Giovanni
#49. You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard.
Richard Matheson
#50. If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they'll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.
Michael Monroe
#51. -You are going to die many times my friend- I wispered to him- And many more after I am king.
-I fuck kings
Quil Carter
#52. My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more.
Katherine McIntyre
#53. The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died
Quil Carter
#54. Our world must be hell, then. It must be the hell of some other place where all of us committed atrocious sins of some sort, and now we're stuck here until we die and either come back or are whisked off to some other hell. It couldn't be worse than this one, though.
Michael Monroe
#55. Kidnapping you was the worst idea I ever had." - Luc Wade
Bec McMaster
#56. Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
Michael Monroe
#57. He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.
Michael Monroe
#58. Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.
Tessa Maurer
#59. With out freedom nothing has value, Free agency is the only true key to happiness.
M.H. DuMond
#60. It feels so good to find out I mean everything to the person who means everything to me.
Leslie Lee Sanders
#61. Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt.
Emily St. John Mandel
#62. Colour began staining the sky, breathing life into the deathly shadows of dawn.
Ronel Van Tonder
#63. The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.
Scott A. Butler
#64. I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.
Katherine McIntyre
#65. In the afternoon, they stopped to eat on a rocky outcrop. Perry brushed a kiss on her cheek while she was chewing, and she learned that it was the loveliest thing to be kissed for no reason, even while chewing food. It brightened the woods, and the never sky, and everything.
Veronica Rossi
#67. My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.
Katherine McIntyre
#68. She sticks to the rules, because it's all she's got. It's like her feelings dried up and they were replaced with a pile of useless laws. Like my appendix. Don't know what I need it for, but it's still there.
Monica Valentinelli
#69. This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.
Leot Felton
#70. This is what we do. We make tea and read books and watch people die.
Megan Crewe
#71. That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.
Michael Monroe
#72. People soon forgot about the beautiful places that once existed. But they didn't care. They were too busy dying.
Logan Keys
#73. ... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.
Jenny Lynne
#74. apocalyptic statuary of the post-Hegira expansionist period. I
Dan Simmons
#75. I 'd never seen him cry; I didn't think he could . It would have to take something greater than the end of the world to reduce Vaughn Ashby to tears .
Lauren DeStefano
#76. We sat in silence, staring out into the street, listening to the creak of the porch swing, the crickets, and the occasional gunshot.
Will McIntosh
#77. I was the Reaper and he was the Ghost, and his soul was long overdue for collection
Quil Carter
#78. Because there wasn't anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen table
with a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn't happened, though. At least not yet.
Ann Gimpel
#79. Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.
Tyffani Clark Kemp
#80. If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.
Alexandar Tomov
#81. A joke is a witticism or play on words that's meant to be funny. I say 'meant to be' because most jokes aren't funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
Michael Monroe
#82. We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.
Michael Monroe
#83. The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.
Michael Monroe
#84. We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
Rick Yancey
#85. Well you know what they say. It's always raining somewhere.
Michael Monroe
#86. Then why are you still here?" I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.
"Masochism."
"I don't know what that means."
"It means I like my own pain."
"That doesn't make sense."
"I'm human. You think we ever make sense?
Tessa Maurer
#87. That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven't seen nobody, you're actually saying that you have seen somebody.
Michael Monroe
#88. And with the smallest intake of breath he had painted me a picture. Ash that stung your tongue like poisoned snowflakes and breaths of air that burned your lungs without fire
Quil Carter
#89. Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.
Michael Monroe
#90. Darkness shrouded everything and the only light was the strange pulse of lightning that illumed the sky like a distress beacon. A dying world signaling for help to the ancient Starcrafter who created it.
C.J. Anderson
#91. Because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning ...
Tamara Rose Blodgett
#92. Take it slow. We want to know what's ahead before what's ahead knows we're here.
K.E. Douglas
#93. It was one of those dreams from which she woke up depressed about her reality, filled with a longing that pulled at her insides, wishing the dream could have lasted forever, or at least much longer than it had.
Michael Monroe
#94. Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?" Hunter's grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. "Why, that's adorable!
Katherine McIntyre
#95. Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.
Michael Monroe
#96. I'm thinking ahead, imagining what our lives together would be like once we're free from this hell and allowed to live and let go. You know? Really let go of our pain and finally enjoy each other ... you and me.
Leslie Lee Sanders
#97. And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.
Lauren DeStefano
#98. The day Mother Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? killed Father The Outlaw Josey Wales, they were arguing again about the Pre-Reddening game of Major League Baseball.
Nick DiChario
#99. Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.
Rick Yancey
#100. I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I'm not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I'd rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.
James Rozoff
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