Undead Quotes

• The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.

  Kim Harrison

  Loyalty, Savages, Remembered

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• Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.

  Tim O'Brien

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• As you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Erotic, Vampire

  "Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Talk DARK SHADOWS, Pulling from the TV Series, Deleted Scenes, a Sequel and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2012.

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• He was like an undead boomerang. A zomberang.

  Devon Monk

  Boomerang

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.164, Penguin

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• Brush teeth. Wash hair. Rule undead world with an iron fist.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hair, Iron, Teeth

  Jeaniene Frost (2011). “This Side of the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

  Katherine Helmond

  Children, Fascination, Hearing

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• I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

  Richelle Mead

  Badass, Humor, Love Of My Life

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.217, Penguin

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• If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

  e. e. cummings

  People, Funeral, Alive

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• A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.

  Heather Brewer

  Kids, Advice, May

  Heather Brewer (2011). “First Kill”, p.154, Penguin

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• Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom.

  Jeaniene Frost

  School, People, Dancing

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• I like not being dead. Anything beyond that is just icing on the cake.My undead cake of livingness.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Cake, Icing On The Cake, Icing

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• Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.

  Max Brooks

  Memories, Zombie, Trying

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• Mom. I have something to tell you. I’m undead. Now, I know you may have some preconceived notions about the undead. I know you may not be comfortable with the idea of me being undead. But I’m here to tell you that undead are just like you and me … well, okay. Possibly more like me than you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mom, Humor, Ideas

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.664, Simon and Schuster

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• With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?

  Max Brooks

  Zombie, Able, Protection

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.59, Broadway Books

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• You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night," "For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.

  Charlaine Harris

  Humorous, Party, Night

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• George Harrison: The day after the Blue Angel audition, John showed up to rehearsal with a long list of name suggestions, and I remember each and every one of them: the Deads-men, the Deadmen, the Undeads-men, the Undeadmen, the Rots, the Rotters, the Dirts, the Dirty Ones, the Grayboys, the Eaten Brains, the Eating Brains, the Mersey Beaters, the Mersey Beaten, the Bloodless, the Graves, the Headstones, and the Liverpools of Blood. Paul ripped off John's right arm and used it to slap John across the face, then he said, "Those're horrible, mate, just horrible, y'know.

  Alan Goldsher

  Dirty, Angel, Men

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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

  Mean, Meals, Bullets

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• 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

  Might, Realizing, Ifs

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• Not all librarians are evil cultists. Some librarians are instead vengeful undead who want to suck your soul.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Evil, Soul, Want

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ...Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.

  Bill Watterson

  Zombie, Enough, Ifs

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• Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead.

  James Wolcott

  Rebel, Dean

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• Don't be too hasty," she warned. "Conserve your strength. If you're too eager to fight the undead, you may find yourselves joining them. Then you'd never see us again, and we'd be very sad." "Yes," said Christian. "I'd cry into my pillow every night." I resisted the urge to kick him. "Well, I couldn't visit if I was Strigoi, yeah, but hopefully I'd just die a normal death. Then I could come see you as a ghost.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Fighting, Night

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.156, Penguin

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• There's a ghost in this house! An unquiet spirit!" Unquiet spirit?" Shane said under his breath. "Is that politically correct for pissed off? You know, like Undead American or something?

  Rachel Caine

  House, Pissed Off, Spirit

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.133, Penguin

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• Do you really have the ability to control all types of undead?" Magnus asked. "Can you really make a hundred shoes in a single night?" I asked. Magnus smiled. "Wrong kind of fairie.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Night, Shoes, Kind

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.68, Penguin

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