Science Fiction Apocalyptic Quotes

#1. HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!

Arkady Strugatsky

#2. Well you know what they say. It's always raining somewhere.

Michael Monroe

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another.

Alan Moore

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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.

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Cities are more than the sum of their infrastructure. They transcend brick and mortar, concrete and steel. They're the vessels into which human knowledge is poured.

Rick Yancey

#14. She loves dogs. And in time, who knows, maybe she would even have ended up loving the type of dogs who eat other small dogs for lunch.
Leslie McNeill

Richard Finney

#15. What are you seeing? people selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their product

Max Brooks

#16. He could argue a case for anything, but that doesn't change the fact he's wrong most of the time.

Michael Monroe

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Justin Cronin

#20. Is this how humanity waves good-bye?
Hell no.

Rick Yancey

#21. If the world explore all my dark fantasy, will change for the better.

Alexandar Tomov

#22. Her eyes flashed, hot and angry, like lightening cutting through a red sunset.

Tyffani Clark Kemp

#23. That's what you people do, isn't it? Make assumptions and sell them to impressionable idiots.

Michael Monroe

#24. This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

Leot Felton

#25. I'm now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I've had a chance to steel my defenses against hearing you utter the word 'lizard.'"

-- spoken by Dr. Jeri Asheer... to Chris Dixon.

Richard Finney

#26. The Freaks are coming.

J.O. Young

#27. ... there are certain questions that must never be asked. Of anyone. Even oneself.

Jenny Lynne

#28. Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.

Shelly Crane

#29. 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

#30. Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.

Michael Monroe

#31. 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

#32. We all end up dying in the end. It's just a question of how and when.

Michael Monroe

#33. I guess I should thank you for totally making my morning. It's not every day a stranger notices my perspiration level.
- Dr. Jeri Asher (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)

Richard Finney

#34. Ask very pointed questions. Sharp as sword blades, or laser blasts, if you catch my meaning.

Michael Monroe

#35. All I see is my father's tax money being wasted on shooting satellite pictures of South America like you guys work for the Travel Channel.
Todd Dooley (BLACK MARIAH - A Calling)

Richard Finney

#36. Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.

Alden Bell

#37. 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