Dystopia Quotes

You don’t have to keep living in a dystopia simply because you’re strong and noble enough to accept it.

Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner.

Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day, every day, sleeping its life away.

The paths people choose in life can lead to the creation or destruction of people, places, things, and relationships. The future is uncertain, but what is certain is there will be change.

If love dies, that's when we've all truly died.

...they come to us, these restless dead,
Shrouds woven from the words of men,
With trumpets sounding overhead
(The walls of hope have grown so thin
And all our vaunted innocence
Has withered in this endless frost)
That promise little recompense
For all we risk, for all we've lost...

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.

Moreover, people have become accustomed to reading to escape as opposed to reading to think.

Not many people bothered to look for beauty beyond the greenhouses. They went about life with their heads down, just praying to get through the day, to feed themselves and their family. No one ever did anything to make it better.

There has to be beauty left in the world, Julia," said Kiyu. "Otherwise we have nothing.

I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

I never thought it would get this bad. I never thought the Reestablishment would take things so far. They're incinerating culture, the beauty of diversity. The new citizens of our world will be reduced to nothing but numbers, easily interchangeable, easily removable, easily destroyed for disobedience.

We have lost our humanity.

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

Gods have become like us, ergo, we have become like gods. And to you, my unknown planetary readers, we will come to you, to make your life as divinely rational and exact as ours.

Mai whispers, “Why did she have to leave? When she was there, I knew where I had her; she was safe.”
“You of all people,” Nicholas says, “should know that freedom is more important than being safe.

They say that when people still rode on vehicles powered by oil, they could go anywhere they wanted.

My też musimy wypełnić nasze zadanie, co oznacza między innymi pilne oglądanie telewizji i śmierć w wieku 62 lat. A cała wolność, o której możemy marzyć, to fajka, parę dowcipów i trochę nadprogramowego pieprzenia. Nie traćmy tego, co mamy, dobrze?