Post Apocalyptic Quotes

Quote from “Unexpected Tales from the Ends of the Earth”: “This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and put the trigger. He is dead right here. But he would never die in that dream. And I will never stop ask myself why I woke up, and how exactly has finished “This is that old well known man, for who I understood that one morning he puts the pistol in his mouth and put the trigger. He is dead right here. But he would never die in that dream. And I will never stop ask myself why I woke up, and how exactly has finished the strange feast”.

~ Alexandar Tomov

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...

~ Tamara Rose Blodgett

Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

~ Alexia Purdy

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

Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t thank her for being a good, kind, patient mother. Of course not -- you vault down down the stairs and make a run for the corner.Only if it’s the last time you’ll ever see your mother, you sort of start to wish you’d stopped and did those things. Maybe even missed the bus.But the bus was barreling down our street so I ran.

~ Emmy Laybourne

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

~ Tyffani Clark Kemp

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

~ Jenny Lynne

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

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

Take it slow. We want to know what’s ahead before what’s ahead knows we’re here.

~ K.e. Douglas

There were two people…things at the cave entrance,’ I whispered, shuffling as close to him as possible, my eyes trained on where the strangers had stood only seconds ago. At my words, Patrick seemed to jolt awake.‘Sometimes the fire makes shadows when it’s dying,’ he said, sitting up, his arm brushing against my side. ‘I’ve slept here many times and it happens,’ he added.‘No. They were real.’ My thudding heart was like thunder in my ears. ‘They were really tall and pale, and blond, really, really blond.’‘Maybe, as you were falling asleep tonight, you were thinking about the shadows at your window, which caused you to dream about two blond men?’ His warm breath tickled my hair. ‘And maybe, deep down, you have a thing for blonds. I’m a little offended, actually.

~ Vanessa Garden

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

~ Leot Felton

Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say “a man” because that is how I know myself. Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a man? Do I not feel as you do, suffer as you do, love as you do, mourn as you do? What is the essence of a man, if not these things?

~ Justin Cronin

In my own life many bad things was done to me, and that is how I know that when it happens sometimes you think something is wrong with you. Whoever did those things to you? It's them it's wrong with. It's not your fault.

~ Carola Dibbell

People who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were. She'd said it was always a mistake, to believe those people were different, special, infected with something that was inhuman, subhuman, fundamentally other. Which reminded her of what her mother had said about Corbell Picket. That evil wasn't glamorous, but just the result of ordinary half-assed badness, high school badness, given enough room, however that might happen, to become its bigger self. Bigger, with more horrible results, but never more than the cumulative weight of ordinary human baseness.

~ William Gibson

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

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

You shouldn’t say mean things to people before they kill you. It’s being a sore loser.

~ Michael Monroe

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