Dystopian Quotes

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”

— Richard Due

He who controls the past controls the future.

— Laozi

“Dear, sweet, beautiful girl,”

— Tehereh Mafi

“If we lack choice we lack everything.”

— Kay Dick

“You are only partly alive.”

— Ira Levin

“The city is a plague… and I am the penicillin.”

— Jerry J.C. Veit

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

— Lauren DeStefano

“A man without a footprint has no soul.”

— John A. Autero

“You, my dear, are getting curiouser and curiouser. Like Alice down the rabbit hole, nothing is as it appears.”

— Teri Terry

“...the end of the world hasn't granted the clumsiest among us any measure of grace.”

— Patricia Hamill

“Always have a plan, but be prepared to change it at any given moment.”

— K. Chrisbacher

“Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“I love him, and he loves me. And being together makes even the little things better.”

— Trisha Leigh

“We’re offered opportunities to,” he gave a slight chuckle, “integrate. Refusal is recorded as hostility.”

— Kay Dick

“The night surrounds, breathes across her skin. They’re lost in the shadows of the moon.”

— Laura Kreitzer

“If I didn't love so damn hard I wouldn't have someone to risk my life for.”

— Leslie Lee Sanders

“And tomorrow... what? Nobody knows. You understand? Neither I nor anyone else knows. It's unknown. You understand it's come to an end,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest…

— Nicholas Meyer

“The morgue was the name the human workers gave to this room in the facility. They were careful not to utter it…

— A.R. Merrydew

“So, the book is not 'anti-religion.' It is against the use of religion as a front for tyranny; which is a different…

— Margaret Atwood

“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.”

— Laura Kreitzer

Most dystopian, classic and contemporary, paints a future world that puts a twist on present society - a future world that could…

— Lauren DeStefano

“You cannot thrive under the wrong stars, Kricket… the stars here are in opposition to you… can’t you feel it?… Let us…

— Amy A. Bartol

“Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.' Father…

— Jacqueline Carey

I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and…

— Laura Kreitzer

“Death and his scythe do not come. No sweeping black capes or ethereal escapes. There’s no pearly gate, no prisms of colors…

— Laura Kreitzer

“She stood panting as adrenalin fired up her muscles. Flipping open the safety catches on both of her laser pistols, she set…

— A.R. Merrydew

“Every Forsaken in a mile radius can probably hear you. You’re just asking for trouble if you two don’t stop whipping out…

— Laura Kreitzer

“Big discoveries call for even bigger responsibility, since they come with the biggest hazards, if they get into the wrong hands. As…

— Sima B. Moussavian

“But just being whatever it is that I am . . . I don’t think that makes me a monster. Believe me,…

— Michael Selden

“Those rabbits stopped fighting the system, because it was easier to take the loss of freedom, to forget what it was like…

— Alexandra Bracken

“All of us sit here at this conference and feel secure in our belief that we live in an era beyond this…

— Margret Atwood

“…and do you know what?” “What?” “People don’t talk about anything.” “Oh, they must!” “No, not anything. They name a lot of…

— Ray Bradbury

“I try to congure, to raise my own spirits, from wherever they are. I need to remember what they look like. I…

— Margaret Atwood

When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're…

— Veronica Roth

“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died." "Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a…

— Therisa Peimer

“My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total…

— Jen Naumann

“How do you know? How can you prove it’s them and not—” “Us? Because we haven’t had bombs in ages. Records show…

— Quoleena Sbrocca

“My fingers flex as I extend my palms toward the creatures and the light. Energy pulses through me as the core of…

— Quoleena Sbrocca