ZOMBIE QUOTES III

quotations about zombies

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Since vampires and zombies are not natural enemies and have no need for each other, the standoff consists of prolonged gazing and snarling at one another en masse.

JILLIAN MCDONALD

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The website didn't say how much brains--or even how many--I should eat, only that I should eat them in 48 hours OR ELSE. Why doesn't anyone pay attention to details anymore? Would it be so hard to add a simple line like, BTW, Maddy, 3 pounds of brains per week is plenty? Seriously, am I the first new zombie ever to ask?

RUSTY FISCHER

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Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.

MAX BROOKS

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Humans are bad at the living thing. They are ugly, inept, and eventually, they decay. You have no choice but to laugh at them. Zombies can relate.

NOAH BERLATSKY

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Probably the most important zombie film, George Romero's 1978 Dawn of the Dead, is a tongue-through-rotting-cheek satire of America's shopping obsession literally set in an abandoned mall, through which the undead wander like ... well, like zombie shoppers, staggering from window display to window display, tripping over escalators, flailing ineffectually in fountains. "What are they doing? Why do they come here?" one character asks in horror, to which another soberly replies, "Some kind of instinct. Memory of what they used to do. This was an important place in their lives."

NOAH BERLATSKY

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Life is wasted on the living.

ANONYMOUS

Tags: life

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Zombies clearly appear to have something going on "upstairs," but not much, and presumably what they have is very different from their prior state. Brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and disorders such as autism also raise questions about absent and altered personal identity. For example, at what point is the person no longer "at home"? Or at what point is a person no longer the same person I once knew? Zombies clearly bring to mind the ravages of brain damage and serious cognitive disorders. Good horror exploits our deepest fears and issues that we rarely like to bring to the surface.

HAMISH THOMPSON

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Can you kill a zombie with a baseball bat? It would take a lot. A human skull is really hard. You've got to destroy the brain. You've got to hit and hit and hit. If you've got a bladed weapon, just chop the head off. Just don't step on the head because it's still biting. So Birkenstocks are a no-no.

MAX BROOKS

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Walking out in the middle of a funeral would be, of course, bad form. So attempting to walk out on one's own was beyond the pale.

STEVE HOCKENSMITH

Tags: funerals

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The scientific community has embraced the living dead as a legitimate field of study in recent years. Largely because of their uniquely biological roots, zombies are the perfect research subjects, and serious work is being done in a wide range of fields, from mathematical outbreak modeling to the theoretical construction of the zombie brain.

MATT MOGK

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What's with the zombie craze? Zombies are half alive, half dead, right? Sounds like my wife in bed.

JAROD KINTZ

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Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I got that right?

RICHARD KADREY

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I just hope every time the zombies are in shot we're not going to have the same song/jingle ... Oh we are.

ROLF BERTZ

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We are in the middle of what looks increasingly like the zombie apocalypse. Moaning people don't need help. Moaning people are intending to eat us.

MIRA GRANT

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The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.

KIM PAFFENROTH

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There was something about clowns that was worse than zombies. (Or maybe something that was the same. When you see a zombie, you want to laugh at first. When you see a clown, most people get a little nervous. There's the pallor and the cakey mortician-style makeup, the shuffling and the untidy hair. But clowns were probably malicious, and they moved fast on those little bicycles and in those little crammed cars. Zombies weren't much of anything. They didn't carry musical instruments and they didn't care whether or not you laughed at them. You always knew what zombies wanted.)

KELLY LINK

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So there's an iPhone app for fighting zombies. Interesting.

AMELIA BEAMER

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Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.

DAVID WONG

Tags: Jesus

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After your secret zombie-free hideout has been compromised, you either have to flee to a new location, or just hunker down and wait for your inevitable demise. Obviously, your only real choice her is to run; it's run or die. Now you may ask, "Can't we just wait them out, sooner or later they are going to run out of human flesh and then die of starvation, right?" That would be a good plan, except for one fatal flaw; zombies are already dead, hence the term "undead." Because they are already dead, they are highly unlikely to die of starvation even after an extended period of time without human flesh.

JIM GRIFFIN

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The great days of zombies are a little bit over. It's time for something new.

STEFAN RUZOWITZKY

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