93 Zombie Quotes

In the realm of pop culture, few themes have captivated audiences as consistently as the idea of a zombie apocalypse. From the shambling undead in classic horror films to the frenzied runners in modern thrillers, zombies tap into our deepest fears and fascinations. Whether you're a fan of spine-tingling suspense or dark humor, the genre delivers countless memorable lines that leave a lasting impression. In this post, we’ve curated a collection of the top 93 zombie quotes that capture the essence of survival, terror, and what it means to face the end of the world. Get ready to dive into a world where the living and the dead collide, and every word echoes with eerie resonance.

1. “So you killed him with what now?""I tried that Dr. Phil book at first"..."And I finished it off with the toilet seat. Just so you know, you left it up again. That drives me crazy.” - Jesse Petersen

2. “What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up—Ho-HO! Now you’ve got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You’re not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I’m talking about. Zombies. Learn it, live it, love it.” - Libba Bray

3. “You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.” - Libba Bray

4. “Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.” - Max Brooks

5. “This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.” - Holly Black

6. “Zombies are the middle children of the otherworldly family. Vampires are the oldest brother who gets to have a room in the attic, all tripped out with a disco ball and shag carpet. Werewolves are the youngest, the babies, always getting pinched and told they're cute. With all that attention stolen away from the middle child Zombie, no wonder she shuffles off grumbling, "Marsha, Marsha, Marsha.” - Kevin James Breaux

7. “I came to the conclusion a while ago that there is nothing romantic or supernatural about loving someone: Love is the privilege of being responsible for another. It was, for a time, what kept me going: Each morning, for a little while, I got to feel the weight of the yoke on my back as I pulled the ancient cart of my species.” - John Green

8. “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

9. “Fine, but if and when the zombies team up with the mummies to take over the world, you can't live in my underground bunker.” - Emily Cale

10. “Zombies can't believe the energy we waste on nonfood pursuits.” - Patton Oswalt

11. “Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?""Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are.""What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?""Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies.” - Cassandra Clare

12. “Hey, Ms. P," Tad called, "what's going on?"She let out a slow breath before she answered. "You won't believe this... Brian Murrey tried to eat Scott Morgan."Nick's eyes widened at the unexpected explanation. Had he heard that right?” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

13. “All of Europe, as far as we knew, was gone. It might as well not be there anymore. Russia was gone. By the time you got to wondering where America went there just wasn't any more room for it in your brain. A world without America just couldn't happen - the global economy would collapse. Every two penny warlord and dictator in the Third World would have a field day. It just wasn't possible. It would mean global chaos. It would mean the of history as we knew it. Which was exactly what happened.” - David Wellington

14. “Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?” - Joan Frances Turner

15. “The whole right side of his face was smashed in, concave forehead and crushed cheekbone and one eye bugging precariously from a broken socket. He was purplish-black, and dirty white: Maggots seethed from every pore and crawled across him in excited wriggly piles, blowflies waving and blooming and wilting, the bits of bone they'd scraped clean glinting like tiny mosaic tiles. Scraps of jeans and a leather jacket clung to the sticky seething mess of his flesh. He was big, big shouldered, a good foot taller; chit-chitter, he went, even standing still.” - Joan Frances Turner

16. “Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.They're fucking with the wrong people.” - Robert Kirkman

17. “The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered.” - Cherie Priest

18. “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

19. “Blood is really warm,it's like drinking hot chocolatebut with more screaming.” - Ryan Mecum

20. “I said to him, "State your business, mortal!" There was no need for me to call him "mortal" or to speak like a sixteenth-century knight. It just sounded cool.” - alan goldsher

21. “Then he said in his most excellent Mick impression, "Your powers are useless against Ninja Lords, O great zombie hunter! Surrender or feel the sting of the shuriken!” - alan goldsher

22. “Jane woke, stretched, and decided to kill herself. If she hadn’t found a reason to live by the end of the day she would jump from the rig. It felt good to have a plan.” - Adam Baker

23. “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

24. “Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.” - Daniel W. Drezner

25. “When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.” - Adam Selzer

26. “Tony, Tony,come around, something's lost that can't be found.” - Stephen King

27. “There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.” - Mira Grant

28. “Is there anything hotter than a cute guy who is also armed and dangerous? I think not.” - Stacey Jay

29. “This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.” - Amanda Hocking

30. “Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.” - Isaac Marion

31. “It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself.” - Dan Chaon

32. “There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So she lies there kicking her fat legs against the footboard of the crib, eternally calling for her mother. For food. For flesh.” - Carrie Ryan

33. “I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.Which was, I suppose, why we got hit with an initial wave of zombie bugs, birds and rodents. I bet some people would say if you've never picked undead mosquitoes out of your teeth, you've never lived. Under that definition, I'd be just as happy to have not lived, thanks.” - C.E. Murphy

34. “It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat to a straightforward physical danger from the zombies themselves, rather than our own inability to avoid them and these films are about us, not them. There's far more meat on the bones of the latter, far more juicy interpretation to get our teeth into. The first zombie is by comparison thin and one dimensional and ironically, it is down to all the exercise.” - Simon Pegg

35. “My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.” - Isaac Marion

36. “You know, surprisingly, they don't sell a lot of brains in the local 24-hour grocery store around the corner from my house.” - Rusty Fischer

37. “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

38. “Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.” - Tamara Rose Blodgett

39. “This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.” - Amanda Hocking

40. “Be nice to her,” I muttered under my breath. “She’s my sister; she got sick. She lost her kid. For all I know, she may have eaten her.” - Joan Frances Turner

41. “I'm watching her talk. Watching her jaw move and collecting her words one by one as they spill from her lips. I don't deserve them. Her warm memories. I'd like to paint them over the bare plaster walls of my soul, but everything I paint seems to peel.” - Isaac Marion

42. “Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.” - Isaac Marion

43. “Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...” - Tamara Rose Blodgett

44. “Little old laidesspeed away in their wheel chairs,frightened meals on wheels.” - Ryan Mecum

45. “...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.” - Isaac Marion

46. “Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.” - Alden Bell

47. “What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?” - Daniel Waters

48. “Alice is fictional. This isn't.” - Jess C. Scott

49. “Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun.” - N.J. Hallard

50. “..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;” - Robin Becker

51. “...they come to us, these restless dead,Shrouds woven from the words of men,With trumpets sounding overhead(The walls of hope have grown so thinAnd all our vaunted innocenceHas withered in this endless frost)That promise little recompenseFor all we risk, for all we've lost...” - Mira Grant

52. “Excuse me if I feel skeptical,' I said. 'Coach's foot fell off. How exactly do you propose to cure that? Superglue?” - Carrie Harris

53. “Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.” - Mira Grant

54. “But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.” - Max Brooks

55. “When Jesus said “Whoever eats my flesh & drinks my blood has eternal life” John 6:54 He was CLEARLY talking to Zombies & Vampires” - Pablo

56. “It is meant to be survival of the fittest, not survival of the most floral.” - Stephen Herfst

57. “In fact, since the accident, Mom doesn't love anyone. She is marble. Beautiful. Frigid. Easily stained by her family. What's left of us anyway. We are corpses.At first, we sought rebirth. But resurrection devoid of her love has made us zombies. We get up every morning, skip breakfast, hurry off to work or school. For in those other places, we are more at home.And sometimes we stagger beneath the weight of grief, the immensity of aloneness.” - Ellen Hopkins

58. “If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.” - Mira Grant

59. “If a responsible, mentally sound American wants to own and AR-15, that’s their right. Besides, when the zombies come…okay, you don’t like the zombie thing. When the Chinese invade our country, who do you want to depend on? The over-extended police force and the National Guard? Or the next door neighbor who’s a former Marine and has enough guns and ammunition for your entire block?” - Aaron B. Powell

60. “I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys” - Isaac Marion

61. “And then, anger gave way to pure and simple job satisfaction. I mean, when I looked at a dead zombie head on a spike, I thought, "Hey, I did that. Picasso would have been proud. Especially how I rearranged that eye” - Jesse Petersen

62. “My story ended where so many stories have ended since the Rising: with a man—in this case, my adoptive brother and best friend, Shaun—holding a gun to the base of my skull as the virus in my blood betrayed me, transforming me from a thinking human being into something better suited to a horror movie.” - Mira Grant

63. “Jett Gallatin expected trouble in Alsop, Texas—but not zombies.” - Mercedes Lackey

64. “I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bite somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts" -Warm Bodies” - Isaac Marion

65. “I would like my life to be a movie so I could cut to a montage.” - Isaac Marion

66. “He never did get right all the way again. And every once in a while he'd come down all bitey.” - Jonathan Maberry

67. “There is another system, more beaded than weather or murder, that is moving up into the province. As Les leaves the chair to investigate his son’s crying a thousand zombies form an alliterative fog around Lake Scugog and beyond, mouthing the words Helen, hello, help. This fog predominates the region; however, other systems compete, bursting and winding with vowels braiding into dipthongs so long that they dissipate across a thousand panting lips. In the suburbs of Barrie, for instance, an alliteration that began with the wail of a cat in heat picked up the consonant “Guh” from a fisherman caught in surprise on Lake Simcoe. The echoing coves of the lake added a sort of meter, and by the time these sounds arrived in Gravenhurst, the people there were certain that a musical was blaring from speakers in the woods. All across the province, zombies, like extras in a crowd scene, imitate a thousand conversations. They open and close their mouths on things and sound is a heavy carpet of mumbling, a pre-production monstrosity. In minutes the Pontypool fog will march on the town of Sunderland and over the barriers south of Lindsay.” - Tony Burgess

68. “Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.” - Alaya Dawn Johnson

69. “I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!” - Tom Conrad

70. “He grumbles incoherently, opens the window a fraction and continues to smoke away. It’s like every time Sidney Drake enters a new location he has to readjust the atmosphere, akin to one of those sci-fi shows where they oxygenate the planet, but for my dad it’s in a suffocating reverse. He replaces the clean wholesome air with a non-stop puff of toxic poison.” - Tom Conrad

71. “The truth was, neither the Central Intelligence Agency nor any of the other official and unofficial U.S. intelligence organizations have ever been some kind of all-seeing, all-knowing, global illuminati. For starters, we never hand that kind of funding.” - Max Brooks

72. “Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?” - Alexia Purdy

73. “They say a happy childhood is a lousy preparation for life. Kids who spend their playground days fat, ginger or gay know the truth. The world has always been full of vicious predators. For plenty of people this carnage and savagery is business as usual.” - Adam Baker

74. “Fucking GUNS are fucking AWESOME and when you SHOOT them at SHIT, they fucking KILL it!” - Etienne Guerin DeForest

75. “Alex: "You asked earlier why us humans fear death. I suppose it is the unknown - not knowing what awaits on the other side. But now I know, and I still fear it."The Darkness: "?"Alex: "But now I fear the living - in fact, I now fear life more than death!” - Scott Beadle

76. “The abundance of small things, it'll bury you.” - Alden Bell

77. “Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?” - Corey Redekop

78. “Run, sweetheart, run.” - Rae Hachton

79. “For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine.” - Rae Hachton

80. “She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her.I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest.” - Isaac Marion

81. “I'm not the one going for a biology degree. I'm just a philosophy major who eats people.” - Scott Westerfeld

82. “What did the zombie say to the whore? Keep the tip!” - Diana Rowland

83. “He could wear hats. He could wear an assortment of hats of different shapes and styles. Boater hats, cowboy hats, bowler hats. The list went on. Pork-pie hats, bucket hats, trillbies and panamas. Top hats, straw hats, trapper hats. Wide brim narrow brim, stingy brim. He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool? He was pretty aur ether had. And they were. They were cool.” - Derek Landy

84. “I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.” - Madeleine Roux

85. “I’m alive; I’m not gonna try eating your ass, okay? Don’t shoot!” “What… Eat my ASS?”“Sorry, I didn’t mean it like that.” - Etienne Guerin DeForest

86. “Which got me to wondering whether it’s possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead.” - John Green

87. “I think I remember what love was like before. There were complex emotional and biological factors. We had elaborate tests to pass, connections to forge, ups and downs and tears and whirlwinds. It was an ordeal, an exercise in agony, but it was alive. The new love is simpler. Easier. But small.” - Isaac Marion

88. “This is the moment I have dreaded, the very reason why we kept running, even when it seemed hopeless. We all seemed to believe if we kept running, we would never die. But what exactly had we been hoping to find in the end? A magical place where the infection hadn't spread? A castle surrounded by gumdrops and cotton candy?” - Jen Naumann

89. “We're all guilty of saying insincere things at one point or another, if only just to make the moment not totally suck as much as it truly does.” - Jen Naumann

90. “It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.” - Anton Strout

91. “...So I put it out of its misery, if it really was miserable, and tried not to think about it. That was another thing they taught us at Willow Creek: don't write their eulogy, don't try to imagine who they used to be, how they came to be here, how they came to be this. I know, who doesn't do that, right? Who doesn't look at one of those things and just naturally start to wonder? It's like reading the last page of a book... your imagination just naturally spinning. And that's when you get distracted, get sloppy, let your guard down and end up leaving someone else to wonder what happened to you.” - Max Brooks

92. “I wish I could break this window. Step through it. But I can't break this window. I can't even find some less dramatic way to die inside of this school, like hanging myself or slitting my wrists, because what would they do with my body? It might put everyone at risk. I won't let myself do that.I'm not selfish like Lily.I hate her. I hate her so much my heart tries to crawl out of my throat but it gets stuck there and beats crazily in the too narrow space. I bring my hands to my neck and try to massage it back down. I pres so heard against the skin, my eyes sting, and then I'm hurrying back down the stairs, back to the first floor. I think of Trace running laps, something he can control.” - Courtney Summers

93. “Sure, zombies can “be a metaphor.” They can represent the oppressed, as in Land of the Dead, or humanity’s feral nature, as in 28 Days. Or racial politics or fear of contagion or even the consumer unconscious (Night of the Living Dead, Resident Evil, Dawn of the Dead). We could play this game all night.But really, zombies are not “supposed to be metaphors.” They’re supposed to be friggin’ zombies. They follow the Zombie Rules: they rise from death to eat the flesh of the living, they shuffle in slow pursuit (or should, anyway), and most important, they multiply exponentially. They bring civilization down, taking all but the most resourceful, lucky and well-armed among us, whom they save for last. They make us the hunted; all of us.That’s the stuff zombies are supposed to do. Yes, they make excellent symbols, and metaphors, and have kick-ass mythopoeic resonance to boot. But their main job is to follow genre conventions, to play with and expand the Zombie Rules, to make us begin to see the world as a place colored by our own zombie contingency plans. […]Stories are the original virtual reality device; their internal rules spread out into reality around us like a bite-transmitted virus, slowly but inexorably consuming its flesh. They don’t just stand around “being metaphors” whose sole purpose is to represent things in the real world; they eat the real world.” - Scott Westerfeld