ZOMBIE QUOTES II

quotations about zombies

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They are mean, they are menacing, and they are ready to bring forward the end of the world, as we know it. Who are they? Zombies, of course.

RYAN HARRIS

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Zombies are nothing if not impulsive.

MAC MONTANDON

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We don't get moments of triumphs with zombies. We can win small battles and survive for another day, but the entire world has been destroyed.

PEMBROKE SINCLAIR

Tags: Apocalypse quotes

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Zombies possess none of the supernatural qualities of other such monsters: they cannot fly; they cannot turn into a vapor, bat, or wolf; they are not possessed of superhuman strength; they don't have fangs. As one critic has put it, this means that we do not have "admiration" for them the way we often do for more powerful superhuman monsters. While this makes zombies less formidable as opponents, it makes them rather more fully and disconcertingly human. This often gives zombies a noticeable advantage, for they frequently get the jump on a person who has not yet realized that she is dealing with a zombie and not a human being.

KIM PAFFENROTH

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One way to think about the threat posed by the concept of viral zombies is to consider ants. If a single ant is cornered by an animal or larger/stronger insect, it is likely to get squashed, eaten, or otherwise torn apart. So one ant is not very dangerous. A horde of ants, however, can overtake, kill, and consume far larger and stronger organisms, both insects and animals alike. In fact, in some regions of the world, ant hordes have killed and devoured large forms of livestock and even human beings, picking their bodies clean right down to the bone. Just like ants, the potential threat of the viral zombie concept increases as their numbers increase.

NATHAN BROWN

Tags: ants

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Zombies are peculiarly scary because we think that we could be turned into one, and zombies are peculiarly tragic figures because we recognize the innocent people that these monsters once were.

WILLIAM S. LARKIN

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What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible -- I don't know -- of all the supernatural entities.

SCOTT IAN

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Zombies are the unfortunate people who did not plan or prepare for a sideways world.

HAPPY PREPPER

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Being like a zombie allowed me to attain a Zen state. I actualized the reality of my existence, in ways that only the reanimated can. I became the person I had always wanted to be ... by becoming like a zombie. In fact, the more like a zombie I acted, the better a person I became. And you can too.

SCOTT KENEMORE

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Tight clothes and short hair. You don't want to get grabbed. Dreads are not a good idea. Footwear, no matter what, it's got to be broken in. You don't want to go out and get a new pair of combat boots the day before a zombie outbreak because the blisters you're going to get are just going to slow you down and hurt your feet and then they're going to get you.

MAX BROOKS

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Zombies are creaky, and that's because their cerebellum and basal ganglia are whatever the opposite of awesome is.

MAC MONTANDON

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Zombies have always been smaller than life terrors. Vampires are dark, mysterious, and sexy; werewolves are animalistic and virile and sexy; Jason and Freddie are unstoppable forces of nature. But zombies are merely beautifully anticlimactic monsters: slow, ugly, and pathetic, driven by dumb hunger rather than evil malevolence. They're ridiculous -- which makes them a lot like people.

NOAH BERLATSKY

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To put it as simply as possible, a zombie is a corpse that can be animated and controlled by a Voodoo Queen. Unless there are frogs around; apparently zombies are more terrified of frogs than of fire.

TEAMEPICREADS

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It is amazing to me how deeply into the popular culture the creature has become. There are zombie walks in every major city. I live in Toronto, and last year 3,000 people came out dressed as zombies.... I do not get it. Maybe it's an easy costume: Splash some ketchup on and rip up your jeans -- although most people already have torn jeans -- and you're done.

GEORGE A. ROMERO

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"Zombie" has become a standard adjectival modifier, too: we are in a world of zombie computers, zombie stocks and shares, zombie corporations, zombie economics, zombie governments, zombie litigation, zombie consciousness, even zombie categories (concepts or terms that are dying out but still lingering on). These things all become zombified because they are marked by loss of agency, control or consciousness of their actual state of being: they are dead but don't yet know it, living on as automata. They are the perfect emblem of decline coupled with denial: the zombie condition of the Western world unwilling to face itself after the peak of its power.

ROGER LOCKHURST

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That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary.

MAX BROOKS

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The first rule of Zombieland: Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons ... were the fatties.

JESSE EISENBERG

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Zombies have shown themselves to be quite the versatile narrative tool. At one end of the spectrum there's absurd farce and brainless splatter action, at the other, drama, romance and even deep philosophical discourse. Zombies disturb the natural order; they blur the demarcation of life and death, and that makes them instantly and intrinsically perturbing yet curious.

ROLF BERTZ

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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.... As a kid watching horror films, that was my ego defense mechanism. Well, there's a giant shark in the water? I wouldn't go in the water. It's that simple. But zombies come to you.

MAX BROOKS

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In those moments where you're not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don't get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda... coulda... shoulda.

JESSE EISENBERG

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