The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead QUOTES

2 " Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

4 " But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

6 " If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started raining "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

8 " Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

10 " Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear-all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human "heart" are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity's greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

12 " Zombies, ghouls—no matter what their label—these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

14 " 1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades don't need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

16 " He comes from the grave, his body a home of worms and filth. No life in his eyes, no warmth of his skin, no beating of his breast. His soul, as empty and dark as the night sky. He laughs at the blade, spits at the arrow, for they will not harm his flesh. For eternity, he will walk the earth, smelling the sweet blood of the living, feasting upon the bones of the damned. Beware, for he is the living dead. —OBSCURE HINDU TEXT, CIRCA 1000 B.C.E. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

18 " When fighting for your life, it may simply be too easy to flip the switch to “rock ’n’ roll,” no matter how wasteful and useless this might be. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

20 " As stated before, in Western—particularly American—culture, there is the myth of the individual superbeing. One man or woman, well-armed and highly skilled, with nerves of steel, can conquer the world. In truth, anyone believing this should simply strip naked, holler for the undead, then lay down on a silver platter. "

― Max Brooks , The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead