Max Brooks · 270 pages
Rating: (90K votes)
“Use your head; cut off theirs.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Remember; no matter how desperate the situation seems, time spent
thinking clearly is never time wasted.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns
such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the
emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of
zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This
obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an
executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Unlike the escapee, your team of hunters will be out during the brightest, hottest, most excruciating part of the day. Make sure each hunter is well supplied with water and antisunstroke accessories.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Unlike its human counterparts, an army of zombies is completely independent of support. It will not require food,ammunition, or medical attention. It will not succumb to panic, desertion, or out-and-out mutiny. Like the virus that gave it life, this undead force will continue to grow, spreading across the body of this planet until there is nothing left to devour. Where would you go? What would you do?”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Survival is the key word to remember—not victory, not conquest, just survival.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“Humans who believe they have outrun their undead pursuers might do well to remember the story of the tortoise and the hare, adding, of course, that in this instance the hare stands a good chance of being eaten alive.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“History has proven that a well-trained individual, with nothing but a rock, has a better chance of survival than a novice with the latest technological marvel.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“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, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
“rank warehouses among your most attractive hideouts.”
― Max Brooks, quote from The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
Max Brooks
Born place: in New York City, The United States
See more on GoodReads
“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.) Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The problem is not limited to America: The United Nations reported that in 2000 the number of people suffering from overnutrition--a billion--had officially surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition--800 million.”
― Michael Pollan, quote from The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“In a place where everyone knew my story, it was nice to know there was a chapter that ONLY I HAD TO READ. :)”
― Ally Carter, quote from I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“See?" she says. "tricked you. You're always staring at your opponents eyes-but that gives you a bad peripheral view.If you want to track my arms and legs, you have to focus on my chest."
I raise my eyebrow at that. "say no more.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Prodigy
“When I was young I walked all over this country, east and west, and saw no other people than the Apaches. After many summers I walked again and found another race of people had come to take it. How is it? Why is it that the Apaches wait to die—that they carry their lives on their fingernails. They roam over the hills and plains and want the heavens to fall on them. The Apaches were once a great nation; they are now but few, and because of this they want to die and so carry their lives on their fingernails. Many have been killed in battle. You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts. Tell me, if the Virgin Mary has walked throughout all the land, why has she never entered the wickiups of the Apaches? Why have we never seen or heard her?
“I have no father nor mother; I am alone in the world. No one cares for Cochise; that is why I do not care to live, and wish the rocks to fall on me and cover me up. If I had a father and mother like you, I would be with them and they with me”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe. Once you become an adult and you realize that's not true, it's too late.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The World of Winnie-...
Shattered Mirror
Finally
Morning Star
Seventh Son
The Lost BoyBookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
