Dystopian Quotes
Dystopian Quote of the day
Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.
Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could plausibly happen.
I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.
Live every day as if you've come back in time from a dystopian future to try and prevent everything from breaking.
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.
Its a heartening fact about the human race that utopian fiction precedes dystopian fiction in the evolution of literature.
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.
I think the power of image is in mystery - I endlessly create mysteries, by way of this dystopian message, to initiate intrigue.
A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.
They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.
And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?
The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.
The most important thing you can ever know, is that whatever your purpose is, that's not your only choice.
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.
I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.
If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?
Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.
We are the dead . Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone.
Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.
We are a species born from the planet. If the machines truly want to protect the Earth type planets they must learn to take care of us too.- Sun Wukong
All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.
It’s degrading being routinely subjected to a battery of medical tests to ensure I continue to deserve a place in this new world.
He didn’t save me, though. He allowed me the freedom to save myself, which is the very best type of rescue.
Darian murdered them in cold blood. That’s a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.
I don’t know why I told you all those things, but I did. Maybe it was because I’m a drunk, and sometimes drunks like to confess.
Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.
That was a double negative, Jemail. By saying that you haven’t seen nobody, you’re actually saying that you have seen somebody.
Money is a tool we use to reach certain ends. Nothing more, nothing less. It’s hard to come by, though, so when opportunities arise, we need to make the most of them.
Let them come. We’ve got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We’ve got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?
You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.
There’s a big difference between being numb to something and being immune to it.
I was able to bring the souls from the past back to life.-Amaranth
A joke is a witticism or play on words that’s meant to be funny. I say ‘meant to be’ because most jokes aren’t funny. They range between mildly amusing and grimace-inducingly annoying.
In the desert there is no sign that says, 'Thou shalt not eat stones.
If the only option you leave poor people with is to resort to violence in order to survive, they’ll do just that. And there are lots more poor people in this world than there are rich ones.