The Undead/Quotes

Your deaths shall serve where your lives could not.

—Typhus, the Herald of Nurgle, at the Damnation of Hive Sibullus, Warhammer 40,000

Fear not the dead. Would you quail before some addled crone, or palsied infant? These are victims, not victors.

—Total Annihilation:Kingdoms

These days, it's kinda hard just to make the buried stay
Our subject's not alive, but he fakes it anyway
We told him he was dead, and he'd better lie down

But he just waved at us as he shambled into town

—"Pretty Spry (For A Dead Guy)"

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,

To have seen those dead men rise.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

When I was in high school my teacher told me that there are more people alive today than have ever lived. Don't worry; she lied, then got cancer. (Not my fault.) We live atop a mountain of corpses. The Earth is swimming in humans, above and below the ground, so when I see you trying to raise the dead, I'm torn. On the one hand, I recognize your despair. On the other hand, do you really want to spend the rest of the week fending off a Zombie Apocalypse as the Earth vomits up her dead? AGAIN? Come on, man, think this through: every time you try this, we end up fighting zombies. I hate zombies. Just put the syringe down.

—Genius: The Transgression

Outsmarted by the undead. Another proud moment for our band of heroes.

—Gimli, DM of the Rings

Hail to thee, our infantry!
still brave beyond the grave!
All sworn the Eternal Vow

the time to strike is NOW!

—Manowar, "Battle Hymn"

Stalker: A week ago... Something strange happened.
Persephone: What was that?

Stalker: I died.

—Tasakeru

The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grisly ghouls from every tomb

Are closing in to seal your doom

—Vincent Price, verse from the rap at the end of Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

I hate the undead. All dead, but yet still alive. Makes a mockery of me job.

—The Grim Reaper

Life after life, you won't need flowers on your grave.

You won't need prayers; you have no mortal soul to save.

—Dracula The Musical

You know that line they feed you in boot camp, "You can rest when you're dead"? Complete bullshit!

—Alcatraz, Crysis 2: Legion