Dystopian Fiction Quotes

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

There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.

~ Michael Monroe

Well you know what they say. It’s always raining somewhere.

~ Michael Monroe

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

~ Michael Monroe

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

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

~ Michael Monroe

As far as I know, there’s nothing more dangerous than a man who doesn’t care if he lives or dies.

~ Michael Monroe

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

~ Michael Monroe

Everyone has the right to believe whatever he or she wants. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Pagans, atheitsts, and every other religion. People can follow whichever they choose. Even if you and I believe Christianity is the truth, we must allow others to choose their own beliefs. You can’t force anyone to believe something they don’t, anyway.

~ Michael Monroe

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

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

~ Michael Monroe

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

~ Michael Monroe

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

We don’t want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

~ Michael Monroe

People didn’t love all of this when they still had it. If you love something, you do what’s best for it. You don’t destroy it.

~ Michael Monroe

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

~ Michael Monroe

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

A leader’s first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.

~ Michael Monroe

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

~ Michael Monroe

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

~ Michael Monroe

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

We need to keep government small, but we also need to keep the influence of big business small, and we need to keep the power in the hands of the people, where it belongs. Big government and big business aren’t the only two alternatives.

~ Michael Monroe

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

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

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

~ Aldous Huxley

But a thought swarmed in me; what if he, this yellow-eyed being – in his ridiculous, dirty bundle of trees, in his uncalculated life – is happier than us?

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

~ Aldous Huxley

Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.

~ Erica Lindquist

The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

~ George Orwell

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

I would cry if I could, but instead I just feel my heart rip apart.

~ Siobhan Davis

What I always hate is when people call our movement a 'revolution'. For this to be a revolution, we would have to be opposing a standing government. Look around; there is no standing government.

~ Joe Reyes

They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life

~ Veronica Rossi

It had been along time since I breached the surface of the world above. My parents wouldn’t allow it. So as far as I knew, the survivors that remained were savages. I’d seen a few things before our colony was built and most of the inhabitants left ran wildly through the bare, desert terrain, filth covering them from head to toe, bones protruding their leathery skin, and foam dripping from their mouths in search of one thing…Nourishment.

~ Lauren Hammond

Everybody stood dead still. It was as if now that we were about to get out of the Tower for the first time since the flood, we were scared, like we were crossing some line that we wouldn’t be able to uncross.--Greenleigh

~ B.e. Scully

It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.

~ Siobhan Davis

I have been speaking to you all of your life. In the gurgle of a tide pool, I breathed myself into you. I drew you down from the trees and I lifted you onto your feet. I freed your hands to become your tools so that you would cradle me in my old age, but you have turned on me. My strongest warrior for life, you have been transformed into an insatiable messenger of death. Only a few of my children are still listening when I howl to them, crying in the night, sending the oceans in great surges to cleanse my land -- to cleanse, and to warn you who no longer listen. I WILL BE HEARD.

~ Sarah Warden

The lucky ones died in the blasts. They were spared the fate of starvation, cannibalism, rape and slaughter. Where a man could be killed over half-eaten can of corn.

~ Joe Reyes

Nature is cheaper than therapy.

~ M.p. Zarrella

The law isn't merciful.

~ Cate Campbell Beatty