“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“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“And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)”
Dennis Lehane“Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living?”
Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 26: Call to Arms“I saw thousands of them. A sea of the dead that roared like an ocean! You would have heard them screaming toward you. It would have taken days to steer them away. Killing them? I don't think killing them would have been possible.”
Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 27: The Whisperer War“Hecate dresses in all black, is extremely pale, unearthly beautiful and has the most chilling eyes I’ve ever known. All in all, she comes across as one of ‘The Walking Dead’ – except alive and far prettier!”
Adele Rose, Awakening“But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.”
Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Compendium 1“We have a shit storm behind door A and a storm of shit behind door B”
Abraham Ford (The Walking Dead TV Series)“Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they fin”
Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Book Six“Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They're going to say it'll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don't listen to them. Hold on to it, remember it... Don't let yourself forget it. It's too easy to lose.-Carl Grimes”
Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Issue #125