Dystopia Quotes
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He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.
— Sharon Sant
Never trust a man who sits, uninvited, at the head of the table in another man's home.
— Cecelia Ahern
I would kill for a cheeseburger. Honestly. If I stumbled across someone eating a cheeseburger, I would kill them for it.
— Rick Yancey
So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver's butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.
— Steve Vernon
My fingers find his. They are warm, pulsing with genetically altered blue blood, powered by mirror matter.
— Georgia Clark
This was my world: cold, tangled and distorted. -Keira
— S.L. Wallace
Ideas combined with courage can change the world.
— David Litwack
For one last time, I said my goodbyes to the place I'd known as home for the last decade, and for the first time, I welcomed the unknown.
— Nicole Sobon
It helps if you don't think of them as human. More than one officer has called this job pest control.
— Christine Amsden
Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath
— Kameron Hurley
You don't have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you're strong and noble enough to accept it.
— A.J. Darkholme
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
— Daniel H. Wilson
The antagonists of finance's future, the diaboli ex machina, may have no face at all.
— Usman W. Chohan
Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.
— Anthony Horowitz
Sadie gave her head an exaggerated scratch. 'Don't come too close if you know what's good for you, these nits are on steroids.
— Sharon Sant
I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.
— Suzanne Young
And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
— Ally Condie
The main element crucial for the survival of life is also a demon in disguise; it will snatch your life away as quickly as you were given it.
— Scott A. Butler
If love dies, that's when we've all truly died.
— Keary Taylor
Wishing for something doesn't mean you should have it, and saying something doesn't necessarily make it true.
— Paula Altenburg
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
— Ally Condie
There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.
— Nadege Richards
Modesty is invisibility ... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be ... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
— Margaret Atwood
People are torn between the pathetic safety of not knowing, and the desire to know.
— Lawrence Thornton
Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.
— Leigh M. Lane
A fictional Dystopia is better than a fake Utopia.
— Robert Friedrich
Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.
— J.G. Ballard
There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.
— Philip K. Dick
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
— Lois Lowry
For whom, it suddenly occured to him to wonder, was he writing this diary? For the future, for the unborn.
— George Orwell
Time for the world to end.
— Rick Yancey
His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. He has no such obligation.
— M.K. Sutherland
If we keep punishing people for what their parents or their ancestors have done, the world as a whole can never move forward. Society will never grow.
— Jennifer Wilson
What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.
— Ira Levin
Because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning ...
— Tamara Rose Blodgett
Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progressivism.
— A.E. Samaan
The zoo grounds reeked of desolation, but the silence had an undercurrent, a silvery vibe, like the hush of a concert hall just before the first note.
— Suki Michelle
His eyes met mine. Brown eyes. I couldn't read anything and as he turned away I realised he didn't intend to tell me anything either.
— J.A. Rogers
Nothing exists except through human consciousness
— George Orwell
Impossible is such a stupid word.
— Tahereh Mafi
There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.
— Erica Lindquist
My tears had unexpectedly become real.
— S.L. Wallace
I plant a gentle parting kiss on his lips, our strategy is well and truly screwed at this stage anyway. We barely lasted a day.
— Siobhan Davis
At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.
— Erich Fromm
I know who I am, and I'm being true to myself.
— S.L. Wallace
How shrunk, how dwindled, in our times
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood
Creation's mighty seed -
For Man has broke the Fellowship
With murder, lust, and greed. — Margaret Atwood
I'm a writer; as soon as I imagine what would happen if I found the fountain of youth, it turns into a dystopia in my head.
— Marie Brennan
I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.
— Georgia Clark
Not for the first time Laing reflected that he and his neighbors were eager for trouble as the most effective means of enlarging their sex lives.
— J.G. Ballard
The future is always a dystopia in movies.
— Alex Cox
Where did Wayne Newton go when the USA went to shit? I was more stoned than I had realized.
— James Howard Kunstler
You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.
— S.L. Wallace
He tried. That's the big thing. He tried to do the best he could with what God gave him. He should get a nice raise for trying so hard.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles
— Tahereh Mafi
You're a kid. I didn't know we taught kids manners anymore.
— Christine Amsden
Anything but chicken, and some honesty on the side, please.
— S.L. Wallace
There was something called Christianity.
— Aldous Huxley
From our myopia arose our dystopia.
— Anthony Marais
Life involves a lot of unknowns.
— S.L. Wallace
We urgently need to do - and I mean actually do - something radical to avert a global catastrophe. But I don't think we will.
I think we're fucked. — Stephen Emmott
I think we're fucked. — Stephen Emmott
Every dystopia is masked by a utopia.
— Mackenzie Draman
Dystopia is my playground.
— Jean Nicole Rivers
All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.
— A.E. Samaan
Oh, I wonder if there's another way.
— S.L. Wallace
We're more alike than you realize.
— S.L. Wallace
dystopia, a reliably clean, well-lighted place.
— Kate Atkinson
Because King Silas
always gets what he wants, even if he doesn't want
anything more than to fuck with you. — Quil Carter
always gets what he wants, even if he doesn't want
anything more than to fuck with you. — Quil Carter
Her demon had pursued and seduced him. She hoped he hadn't placed too much importance on that.
— Paula Altenburg
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
— Eugene Ionesco
They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.
— Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
The wren goes to't
— Emily St. John Mandel
Writing a novel is agony.
— George Orwell
Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.
— Jacques Ellul
Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith
— Yevgeny Zamyatin