Top 100 The Living Dead Quotes
#1. Power is only an aphrodisiac for the living dead
Dean Cavanagh
#3. They are the living dead and we have many of those among us, spending their days whining and complaining and never making any attempt to change their lives for the better.
Og Mandino
#4. If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?
Dana Gould
#5. Death is a problem of the living. Dead people have no problems.
Norbert Elias
#6. I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.
David Sedaris
#7. He must be a grown man, stolid, reliably fulfilling his duties, married perhaps, someone's breadwinner - in other words, one of the living dead.
Pessoa, Fernando
#8. I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.
Jonathan Levine
#9. Zombies are a fairly new addition to the cannon of monsterdom. Really, the modern zombie goes back just to the 'Night of the Living Dead.' There's a ton of material out there, but it seems like there's not a lot of diversity out there.
Steve Hockensmith
#10. There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive.
Julie Ann Dawson
#11. 'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.
Jordan Peele
#12. If I catch a fish before the sun rises, I have connected myself again to the deep hum of the planet. If I turn on the television because I cannot stand an evening alone with myself or my family, I am admitting my citizenship with the living dead.
Pat Conroy
#13. 'Feed' is about zombies and politics and blogging. It's about how George Romero actually saved the world! It's 'Night Of The Living Dead' meets 'The West Wing.'
Seanan McGuire
#14. If you have ever seen the movie Night of the Living Dead, you have a rough idea how modern corporations and organizations operate, with projects and proposals that everybody thought were killed constantly rising from their graves to stagger back into meetings and eat the brains of the living.
Dave Barry
#15. The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Tobe Hooper
#16. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?
Tom Robbins
#17. That's the last thing we need. Zombys in a Vampyre story. Twilight of the Living Dead. Ugh!
Abramelin Keldor
#18. An extermination center can only manufacture corpses; a society of total domination creates a world of the living dead...
William Styron
#19. You are a vampire. That's big news in my world. I don't generally date the living dead.
What sort of dead do you usually date?
Christine Warren
#20. They were a sorry-looking bunch. Their clothes were in tatters. Their flesh was ripped. They were filthy beyond filth. For once, they looked like the living dead.
Maggie LaCroix
#21. '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
#22. I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.
Tobe Hooper
#23. I am the living dead girl because I am too weak to die. I hate those crying dough women on TV because they are just like me, weak and broken and clinging to the hands that hold us under.
Elizabeth Scott
#24. I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
Gale Anne Hurd
#25. Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.
Thomas Frank
#26. I'm just saying
' He pointed the way that Han appeared to be favoring. '
this doesn't feel right'
'Yeah, well, we're on a Star Destroyer being chased by the living dead. NONE of this feels right
Joe Schreiber
#27. The best thing that can happen to anybody is to be sacked or made redundant because often that's when you think, "I don't want to become one of the living dead. I haven't got anything to lose, now I can start to follow my own dreams."
Tom Hodgkinson
#28. 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
#29. It's the Night of the Living Dead. It's scary out here.
Roseanne Barr
#30. In the name of God, impure souls of the living dead shall be banished into eternal damnation. Amen.
Kohta Hirano
#31. I'm more afraid of the living. Dead people can't rape me. There's
Mya Robarts
#32. The upshot of her tirade was that I was the devil's spawn and should be locked up in a tower before I unleashed hordes of the living dead to slaughter them all in their sleep. Well, maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.
Kelley Armstrong
#33. The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.
Helen Hodgman
#34. 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
#35. We're living or dying. We're already dead, the living dead. So do what you gotta do. Take care of your family, of yourself as a whole, and everything will be alright.
Schoolboy Q
#37. Earl had let Bertie off the porch for some fresh grass and I didn't want Dr. Eustace to see her. She still looked as though we'd put Hannibal Lecter in charge of her shearing and had hired the special effects team from Night of the Living Dead to bandage her.
Susan Juby
#38. Insanity is a very lonely and empty existence - it's painfully true. They may laugh and smile, and skip and dance, but behind all the faces there is hollowness like a bottomless pit. The living dead, depression is a terrible illness, so is psychosis, the mentally inflicted beyond cure.
Stephen Richards
#39. What were the living dead, Wolgast thought, but a metaphor for the misbegotten march of middle age?
Justin Cronin
#40. Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial terms, as life-challenged. Or undead. Or the living dead. But I'm not a zombie. I'm just a little less alive than your average high school junior.
Rachel Vincent
#42. I was beginning to die myself. I realized that a person could actually become one of the living dead; could go on living but feel nothing, not pain, not fear, not sorrow. I was very near to this state.
Alicia Appleman
#43. Maybe we're all the living dead, reconstituted from the dust of the dead.
Kate Atkinson
#45. The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
Sandra Cisneros
#46. The souls of all are from one and the same source but a soul which is unveiled shines out. Love and light come continually from such souls. We need no proof of it for it is living all else is dead in comparison.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#47. Only the dead do not need wisdom; none who are living can survive without it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#48. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John Milton
#49. There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.
Stephen Hawking
#50. Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act
act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#51. The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris
#52. Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains
Kami Garcia
#53. A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.
Visar Zhiti
#55. In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it: viz. from observation of the living subject; from examination of the dead; and from experiments upon living animals.
Astley Cooper
#56. life is a gift and it's meant for the living, and we dishonor our dead by squandering that gift in favor of the destructiveness of our self-pity.
John Turner
#58. I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
Alexandre Dumas
#59. Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, this one poor soul alone comes natural to me, and I am fit for. There is a tie of many suffering years between us two, and it is the only tie I ever had on earth that Chancery has not broken!
Charles Dickens
#60. Don't you love fall?" Stacey asked. "All the little festivals, the changing leaves, kids in Halloween costumes, the dead spewing up out of their graves to haunt the living ...
J.L. Bryan
#61. Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong
James Branch Cabell
#62. The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#63. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
Aldous Huxley
#64. Spiritual process is not for the dead or the dying; it is for the living who want to become fully alive in all dimensions of life.
Jaggi Vasudev
#65. The craze of genealogy is connected with the epidemic for divorce. If we can't figure out who our living relatives are, then maybe we'll have more luck with the dead ones.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#66. Honor to the earth," the abbot said, "honor to the dead in the passing of the year; honor to the living, in the coming of the new. A Great Year passes tonight. A new one begins. Let the good that is old continue and let the rest perish ...
C.J. Cherryh
#67. Not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living!
Kerry Greenwood
#68. We have to feed our loved ones, but at what cost. A dead man or woman can't feed the living.
James Jean-Pierre
#69. The dead always outnumber the living. These spirits have waited centuries, unable to express their anger. Now I have given them bodies of earth.
Rick Riordan
#70. The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years - but the dead move in with us to stay.
Garrison Keillor
#71. Without the time, the world is only a static material; without the sense, the world is only a dead living system
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#72. I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And every writer I've ever read, living or dead, has in one way or another helped and inspired. I have a feeling it's important not to mix the two up.
Ali Smith
#73. 17 v When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But v he laid his right hand on me, w saying, Fear not, x I am the first and the last, 18and the living one. y I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and z I have the keys of Death and Hades.
Anonymous
#74. Animators Inc., where our motto was Where the Living Raise the Dead for a Killing.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#75. Why it should feel worse to speak ill of the dead than the living I can't imagine.
Dorothy Simpson
#76. The communication/of the dead is tongued with fire beyond/the language of the living
The Little Gidding
T. S. Eliot
#77. The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from power, is entirely coincidental.
Thomas Gately Briody
#78. The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.
Rick Riordan
#79. The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#80. Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside.
Nikola Tesla
#81. It should be recognized that this Church is not a social club. This is the kingdom of God on the earth. It is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Its purpose is to bring salvation and exaltation to both the living and the dead.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#82. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Shannon Hale
#83. As you climb to success over the dead, don't alienate the living.
Kris Waldherr
#84. Maurice Nicoll says all history is a living today. We are not enjoying one spark of life in a huge, dead waste. We are, instead, existing at one point in a vast process of the living who still think and feel but are invisible to us.
Richard Matheson
#85. Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead ... but you know what? It wouldn't change anything. All I can do now that they're dead is to go through the actions of living without really living, and hope it improves someday.
Rebecca McNutt
#86. And if you could make a study of the dead, Stevens thought from time to time, you could make a study of the living, and make them testify as no cadaver could.
Colson Whitehead
#87. Elephants are living treasures. Nature's gardeners. Nature's great teachers. Tragically some people don't give a damn. They prefer the dead treasure to the living one. The ivory. We must challenge this so-called 'trade' with all our might and shame on those who would condone it.
Virginia McKenna
#88. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder
#89. Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.
Jorge Luis Borges
#90. Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
J.K. Rowling
#91. We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living
Confucius
#92. The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.
Czeslaw Milosz
#93. There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
Eugene Ionesco
#94. The day is won [ ... ] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
George R R Martin
#95. For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living.
Elie Wiesel
#96. My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a desk all day was not only a privilege but a duty: something I owed to all those people in my life, living and dead, who'd had so much more to say than anyone ever got to hear.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#97. If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.
Mark Twain
#98. Though you may never have attended a funeral, two of the world's humans die every second. Eight in the time it took you to read that sentence. Now we're at fourteen. The dead space this process out nicely so that the living hardly even notice they're undergoing the transformation. Unless
Caitlin Doughty
#99. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
Muriel Barbery
#100. World of words lost on the living /
I take my place with the walking dead /
Robbed of my voice I'm always giving /
Thousands of words to this nameless dread.
Maggie Stiefvater
