Quotes About Zombies

#1. Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

Daniel H. Wilson

#2. I watched the Star Wars trilogy with some good friends of mine for the first time in a few years, I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies-one of those first mashup books-and then I went to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival with my family.

Ian Doescher

#3. I think the fascination with zombies is that they don't obey the rules of monsters. The first rule of monsters is that you have to go find them. You have to make a conscious choice to go to the swamp or the desert or the abandoned summer camp.

Max Brooks

#4. One nice thing about stairs: Zombies can navigate them, but they can't do it fast.

Mira Grant

#5. She gave him a double-birded salute, and he barked out a rusty laugh. I'm laughing. Me. When was the last time that had happened? He couldn't remember. But she kept doing things to amuse him. Shock him, even. Like pulling out a sword and expressing a very real fear about zombies. Zombies.

Gena Showalter

#6. You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. 'The Night of the Living Dead' zombies, I think I might have a shot at surviving. If they're the fast ones, I may have well just give up.

Michael Spradlin

#8. Zombie Sky. No: Zombies of the Eclipse. Zombies of the Occultation. Occult Zombies from the Planet Moon!

Guillermo Del Toro

#9. Shit, Anita. Zombies in your apartment and a mad millionaire after you to perform human sacrifices." Her grey eyes searched my face. "You're the only person I know who has weirder problems than I do.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#10. Blood is pounding in my ears. Lingering smoke and tequila fill my nostrils as adrenaline courses through my veins. My lips curl into a smile. The only thing that would make this night more perfect is if I had killed some zombies.

Annie Walls

#11. Everything's better with zombies - NOT

Lily Herne

#12. Peggy snorted. Zombies rise and we're still doing paperwork.

Rhiannon Frater

#13. All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.

Otto Penzler

#14. My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.

George A. Romero

#15. Imagine what will happen to this nation if large numbers of American women start using the Wonderbra. It will be catastrophic. The male half of the population will be nothing but mindless drooling Zombies of Lust. Granted, this is also true now, but it will be even worse.

Dave Barry

#16. I loved learning to fight and kill zombies.

Lily James

#17. Fucking zombies. They're almost as bad as tarantulas.

Marcus Lambert

#18. Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.

Michael Almereyda

#19. The only two shows I watch are 'Walking Dead' and 'Nashville,' but both just went off the air for a couple of months, so I feel like I have to be productive because I'm not sitting around waiting for the next episode of zombies or mainstream country music.

Caitlin Rose

#20. Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.

Scott Kenemore

#21. As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

James Surowiecki

#22. Goons were the lowest sort of homunculi, only superior to zombies.

Lita Burke

#23. My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas - but not zombies.

Mercedes Lackey

#25. Let's get the heck out of here then. These dark empty places give me the creeps. I feel like zombies are going to spring out at any time," I said, picking up my dropped items.
"If there are zombies then we have much bigger problems," he joked.
-Cora and Noah

Andrea Heltsley

#26. Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.

Emily Cale

#27. I like my zombies slow and I like my zombies stupid.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#28. I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?

Ben Peek

#29. Do I give money to charity and help old-lady zombies across streets so that they can bite babies?

Mira Grant

#30. We'd be unfeeling, unconscious zombies if we did.

John Brockman

#31. What is that smell? (Nick)
(It was like three-day-old cat vomit mixed with rotten asparagus.)
Duck urine. It keeps the zombies from thinking I'm human. (Mark)
Yeah, well it keeps me from thinking you're sane. (Nick)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. Turning a zombie pandemic into a generic disaster movie robs the zombies of their dirty, nasty edginess and robs the disaster of its epic scope.

Annalee Newitz

#33. Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.

F. Sionil Jose

#34. Zombies were bad enough. Zombies silently appearing out of the mist were the stuff of acid-infused nightmares.

Mark Tufo

#35. Zombies, believe me, are more terrifying than colonists.

Frantz Fanon

#36. My father has always had just one piece of advice about zombies and ammunition, one he's drilled into my head enough times that it's managed to stick: When you have one bullet left and there's no visible way out of the shit you're standing in, save it for yourself. It's better than the alternative.

Mira Grant

#37. When the dawn was still long hours away, bad thoughts took on flesh and began to walk. In the middle of the night thoughts became zombies.

Stephen King

#38. When you're being chased by zombies, hills are either your best friends or your burial ground. The slope slows them down, which is great, unless you hit the peak and find out that you're surrounded, with nowhere left to run to.

Mira Grant

#39. Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other ...

Bill Watterson

#40. People with no human values are worse than zombies.

Mohith Agadi

#41. Number one, I'd just seen my first zombies. Number two, there was no way to stop what was happening. Number three, the odds were I'd never live to see my nineteenth birthday. Life was over before I'd ever even got the chance to live it.

Rose Wynters

#42. I'll never get sick of zombies. I just get sick of producers.

George A. Romero

#43. I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.

Jess Walter

#44. Do you really think these are Alice's tears?" I ask. "That I'm supposed to make them go away somehow?"
"I'm the wrong guy to ask. I just saw a skeleton with antlers and a forest of aphid-noshing flower zombies.

A.G. Howard

#45. When you see zombies, they're typically in a horde. A big group close together, as if they were just holding hands before you saw them and they quickly let go.

Dennis Liggio

#46. The five branches are immortalized in every medical student's memory as Two Zombies Buggered My Cat (Temporal, Zygomatic, Buccal, Mandibular and Cervical). Remembering

Gavin Francis

#47. Holy Christ . . . are we talking zombies here?" Church smiled faintly. "We're calling him a 'walker.' Short for 'Dead Man Walking.' The head of my science team has too much of a pop culture sensibility.

Jonathan Maberry

#48. A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

David Chalmers

#49. Are these Romero slow zombies, or 28 Days Later fast zombies?"
"They were totally slow, dude. Are you blind?

Carrie Harris

#50. Even as zombies, ridiculous prom gowns were the downfall of teenage girls, crippling them at the knees.

G.G. Silverman

#51. World War Z was a great zombie film because those were zombie performances. It wasn't just a bunch of people walking around slow. They did close-ups on zombies who were performing, as a mindless dead thing. They were creepy and scary.

Tom Savini

#52. This is not what I wantef. This is not why I came to the Wilds, why Alex wanted me to come: not to turn my back and bury the people I care about, and build myself hard and careless on top of their bodies, as Raven does. This is what Zombies do.

Lauren Oliver

#53. I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

Rachel Gibson

#54. Okay, Kate, first of all, you're touching me," Vincent said for the room to hear. "So I'm not a ghost."
"And we're not true zombies," Charles said with a grin, "or he would have already eaten your face off.

Amy Plum

#55. It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate.

Jose Pablo Cantillo

#56. That was what separated us from the zombies.

Mira Grant

#57. Zombies, deadheads, corpsicles. What's the difference? They don't care. They don't have feelings to hurt.

Daniel Waters

#58. A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles.

Max Brooks

#59. This will be much more complex than defeating a pack of flesh-eating zombies. It will take fitnesse.

Amanda Carlson

#60. I've never read 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it's a zombie story, it's also 'Pride and Prejudice.'

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#61. Expand. Why stick to just killing zombies? Or killing them just one way.

Jesse Petersen

#62. It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normal"
"Assassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard" I said.
"Just vampires, zombies, and werewolves" he said.
I smiled. "Yeah.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#63. I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

Craig Ferguson

#64. You're a fangirl; you'd sneak off to meet your favorite Characters if it meant having to wade through a crowd of zombies.

Marlene Simonette

#65. Damn. Is everyone in this world a secret prepper?" I asked him. "No, the zombies are the neighbors who never prepped! Those are the ones you gotta worry about. The rest of us go along to get along.

Boyd Craven

#66. I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to do it in an exciting way so that I could reach more readers. Zombies seemed like a good way to do that.

Darren Shan

#67. I saw the first episode of "The Walking Dead," and that's all I've seen. I thought it was good. I used to love zombies when I was little, but I don't like them the way I used to. I'm not knocking the show.

James Patterson

#68. Zombies are the new vampire.

Stephen King

#69. Zombies are eternal. They're like dinosaurs.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#70. My zombies will never take over the world because I need the humans. The humans are the ones I dislike the most, and they're where the trouble really lies.

George A. Romero

#71. Present a united front: YOU against the zombies.

Jesse Petersen

#72. I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

Roddy Doyle

#73. Davey Boy's Dead was given a new lease on life when doctors transplanted the Dynamite Kidney into his body. That new lease on life came to a sudden and rather hilarious end when the Dynamite Kidney exploded and tore a hole in Davey Boy's side. - The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Zombies

Darrin Mason

#74. Zombies don't respect conspiracy. Conspiracy is for the living.

Mira Grant

#75. When Jesus said "Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life" John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires

Pablo

#76. Marie keeps asking for books about zombies and I keep telling her I can't read nonfiction for story time, but . .

Isaac Marion

#77. The worst thing about the dead rising? (Other than, you know, all the zombies?) The smell. Nothing kills the mood like the odor of three day old road kill and poo ... -Katherine Anita Cho(KyCH)

Shawn Durnin

#78. I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.

Tatiana Maslany

#79. They're [zombies] us, you can also have the wrestler zombie, the clown zombie, the Jay Leno zombie and the nun zombie. I've never seen the clown werewolf or vampire. But because zombies are us, at the lowest possible level, they're a lot more versatile for storytelling.

Tom Savini

#80. Zombies are then a symbol of our own mad urges to destroy ourselves, and a terrifying portent that we might succeed.

Kim Paffenroth

#81. He's barely said anything and I already know this guy is gross,' she told the girls. 'If the zombies come at us, we feed them him first.

Faith McKay

#82. Word of advice," the Colonel said from the other side. "Don't tease the zombies.

Peter Watts

#83. Knowing without any doubt that the newly elected cannot help but be his zombies, Obama is the cat who swallowed the canary.

Judi McLeod

#84. I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.'

Max Brooks

#85. Stay away from the Zombies.

Rob Roberge

#86. [In case of zombie uprising] Marxists and Feminists would likely sympathize more with zombies. To Marxists, the undead symbolize the oppressed proletariat. Unless the zombies were all undead white males, feminists would likely welcome the posthuman smashing of existing patriarchal structures.

Daniel W. Drezner

#87. I think the existence of zombies would contradict certain laws of nature in our world. It seems to be a law of nature, in our world, that when you get a brain of a certain character you get consciousness going along with it.

David Chalmers

#88. It is indeed as if we were living in a world of zombies and vampires, where each one of us becomes one of them, after being bitten and contaminated with the negative energy of those that already have such nature.

Daniel Marques

#89. Nothing sends the message to your enemy that he has not fully understood the situation on the battlefield
a tactician's greatest sin
like zombies unexpectedly tapping their rear guard on the shoulder and eating their brains.

Scott Kenemore

#90. Whoa! So, we're going to a planet covered in zombies to recover a religious artifact right before the planet explodes?

Aaron J. Ethridge

#91. [Zombies] don't bother much as long as you can stay out from between their teeth.

Alden Bell

#92. During the meeting, Jenni paid attention only when they talked about killing zombies.

Rhiannon Frater

#93. With slow-moving zombies, what always comes at stake is our humanity.

Stephen Graham Jones

#94. Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.

Mark Fisher

#95. 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

#96. Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster.

Rafael Yglesias

#97. Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.

Olivier Magny

#98. The return of the rain, beating out time on London's rooftops and pavements. Early morning Zombies sheltering beneath copies of the Standard whilst others ran screaming for cover in doorways because water from the heavens is holy and melts the undead.

Stephen J. Day

#99. Clear skin, a manicure, a couple dead zombies, and then fame!

Faith McKay

#100. The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

Jonathan Friesen