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Quotes About Undead

In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.' I've always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.
~ Thomas C. Foster
Kate grasped her small handbag and pulled a small blue vial and threw it into the grinding mass. It shattered harmlessly, causing two creatures to pause with a look of confusion. What is that potion? Simon asked. Kate stared as the two undead things began to shuffle forward again. She glanced into her purse. Damn it! That was my perfume.
~ Clay Griffith
What you fought was a dead man, possessed by a disease.' - Setrakian 'What--like a pinche zombie?' - Gus 'Think more along the lines of a man with a black cape. Fangs. Funny accent. Now take away the cape and fangs. The funny accent. Take away anything funny about it.' - Setrakian
~ Guillermo del Toro
catalepsy could be triggered by disease, certain drugs, or traumatic shock. And if the "undead" was cooled down—for instance, by being stored inside a morgue's cold room—the brain would remain functional until death took over or the person awoke.
~ James Patterson
Vampirism is like Photoshop for the flesh – it fills out, rounds off, smooths over, and brightens up everything. I'Ve seen cancer patients turn into supermodels with a good undead infusion.
~ Cherie Priest
I did not say she was alive, my child... I go no further than to say that she might be Un-Dead.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
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
You look pretty, as always," he said. Azalea grinned, deciding not to remind him that the last times he had seen her, she had been soaked, frozen, unconscious, and a torn mess of the undead.
~ Heather Dixon
We can go without dancing and things a little longer." "Especially since our Great Slipper Scandal quickened the undead and nearly destroyed the palace," said Bramble. "It put us off dancing for at least an hour.
~ Heather Dixon
It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.
~ Tim O'Brien
I don't know what you mean." "Come now, Matthew, it's a simple enough question. How do you feel about being a zombie?
~ Tim Waggoner
Zombies, deadheads, corpsicles. What's the difference? They don't care. They don't have feelings to hurt.
~ Daniel Waters
Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You stole from a member of the undead
~ Darren Shan
You stole a vampire's spider@ Steve shouted. You stole from a member of the undead!
~ Darren Shan
It had been a dangerous gamble — and unfair to the Hemlocks, who knew nothing of their role in the deadly game — but sometimes you have to take chances. Was it wise to risk five lives for the sake of one? Probably not. But it was human . If I'd learned one thing from my one encounter with the crazy vampaneze, it was that even the undead could be human. We had to be — without a touch of humanity, we'd be like Murlough, nothing more than bloodthirsty monsters of the night.
~ Darren Shan
The brains of the undead do nothing for me. The taste is vile, nothing like the juicy, enticing brains of the living.
~ Darren Shan
The living corpse went to the jars and began a hair-raising activity. Skillfully removing the spring-loaded cap from one and plunging its hand in, it extracted the dripping entrails, ripped open its sealed wound, and lovingly pushed inwards, shoving its intestines back into their rightful place.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
Zombies never die. They only rest in pieces.
~ Linda Armstrong
I've always thought vampires were interesting because they live forever, they're always well-financed, they dress well, you know what I mean? And they're, like, cool. Usually vampire - you've never seen a broke vampire. Have you?
~ Michael Ealy
It's one thing to be an undead fiend of darkness, but it takes an immense amount of work to look cool while doing it.
~ Garon Whited
That's the worst part about the walking dead... the stains.
~ Jim Butcher
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
Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.
~ Rachel Caine