Robert Kirkman Quotes & Sayings

It's never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever. — Robert Kirkman

Mother Fuckers. They're going to feel pretty stupid when they find out.
They're fucking with the wrong people. — Robert Kirkman

We are bringing in another threat, which is nature itself. I don't really want to get into specifics too much, but I will say that there is a third uncontrollable, almost undefeatable threat that is going to come in when the characters of the show are at their most vulnerable. It's really going to be something that they have a hard time dealing with. — Robert Kirkman

The pessimist looks down and hits his head. The optimist looks up and loses his footing. The realist looks forward and adjusts his path accordingly. — Robert Kirkman

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

You sick fuck. Tear my pants off, prick. See what I got. I'll knock your fucking teeth out with my swinging dick! Last chance... you force yourself into that woman... and I'll force this knife into your dick hole! — Robert Kirkman

Civilization is a myth. That is the truth this world has taught us. We have not risen above our baser instincts... That is what always has and always will drive us. — Robert Kirkman

I write the way I write. — Robert Kirkman

I'm about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun! — Robert Kirkman

The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers. — Robert Kirkman

It's nice to know that what you're doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people. — Robert Kirkman

I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time. — Robert Kirkman

It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago. — Robert Kirkman

Can't you just read the directions?"
"I could if I wasn't fueled by testosterone and stupidity, but where's the fun in that? — Robert Kirkman

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it ... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics. — Robert Kirkman

An elderly camper realizes, with heart-skipping dismay, that during his afternoon bowel movement, he is unwittingly shitting on a zombie. — Robert Kirkman

It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line. — Robert Kirkman

If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead. — Robert Kirkman

It ain't the dead things you gotta be mindful of around here ... it's the living. — Robert Kirkman

I hope you're at peace. I hope you... I hope you're in heaven, and you fell in love with someone who treats you better than I ever did, and that they're fucking your brains out and then fucking your brains back in after that on a daily basis. I'll always miss you, Lucille. I'm sorry I named a fucking baseball bat after you. — Robert Kirkman

I'm going and I'm not going to die. I'm going to prove to you that you're not the only one who survives. — Robert Kirkman

This is Rick Grimes being pushed to his absolute limit. And if you think you've seen that before, you haven't. And the Rick Grimes that comes out of this is really going to shock people. — Robert Kirkman

Our fine Governor called me here to ask me to talk to you
said you didn't seem too happy here. He knows we're pals. He wanted me to just
I don't know, make sure you weren't going to cause any trouble or something. — Robert Kirkman

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead! — Robert Kirkman

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living. — Robert Kirkman

I came "here" to get "there." Do I have any fucking clue what "there" is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just trying to live in a world of the dead. — Robert Kirkman

Protecting the weak is the whole fucking basis for civilization. If you're not protecting the weak, you're not civilized. You're fucking animals. — Robert Kirkman

Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we're training him to kill the living? — Robert Kirkman

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics. — Robert Kirkman

You think I've been around these fuckers long enough to get comfortable enough to SLEEP ten feet away from them? Not fucking likely. (Axel) — Robert Kirkman

Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well. — Robert Kirkman

I just want my brother back.-Daryl (to Maryl)
the Walking Dead S3 — Robert Kirkman

I know there are a lot of readers that think I've got a very crappy marriage just because of the things going on with Rick and Lori but there's really nothing that's been like a mirror. I'm just making this stuff up. — Robert Kirkman

As the Lady from Borneo digs out his eyeball, the thing eventually uncorks from its socket. — Robert Kirkman

I don't mean to sound sexist, but as far as women have come over the last 40 years, you don't really see a lot of women hunters. They're still in the minority in the military, and there's not a lot of female construction workers. I hope that's not taken the wrong way. I think women are as smart, resourceful, and capable in most things as any man could be ... but they are generally physically weaker. That's science. — Robert Kirkman

I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already. — Robert Kirkman

We can learn so much from them, y'know
just by watching them. They've been at it all night. They just don't stop
they're resilient. They eat until it's gone and then they're content.
I almost admire them.
The thing you have to realize is that they're just us
they're no different. They want what they want, they take what they want and after they get what they want
they're only content for the briefest span of time.
Then they want more. — Robert Kirkman

You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival. — Robert Kirkman

The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers ... — Robert Kirkman

Okay, I'll move the lawn chairs. (Axel) — Robert Kirkman

I just wanted to make it clear that I was saying that the possibility is there and I would've been fine with it, the network would have been fine with it, but we ultimately didn't do that. I can make it official - Daryl Dixon is actually straight. — Robert Kirkman

C'mon, take a load off ... I won't bite. — Robert Kirkman

The deaths in this series are never taken lightly, they're never done with a sense of glee. They weigh on me the same way they weigh on you. These characters are very real to me, and their deaths are upsetting even to me.
(The Walking Dead #167: "A Certain Doom") — Robert Kirkman

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. — Robert Kirkman

I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look. — Robert Kirkman

Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT — Robert Kirkman

I'd rather be a piece of work than a piece of shit. — Robert Kirkman

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character. — Robert Kirkman

I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit. — Robert Kirkman

I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them. — Robert Kirkman

I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members. — Robert Kirkman

I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy. — Robert Kirkman

Don't be such a crybaby. The fucking world ended. Everyone's mother is dead, you pussy. Besides... we're on our way to talk to the people who cut you mom's head off... have some motherfucking perspective. — Robert Kirkman

I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale — Robert Kirkman

Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna do it by being bigger monsters than they are! You understand? There ain't no philosophy, there ain't no grace, there ain't no mercy, there's only us and them, and all they wanna do is eat our ass! So we're gonna fucking eat them! We're gonna chew 'em up and spit 'em out, and we're gonna survive this thing or I will blow a hole through this whole fucked up world! You follow me? You FOLLOW ME! — Robert Kirkman

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else. — Robert Kirkman

Chaos theory is the impossibility of a closed system remaining stable. This town is doomed. There's nobody at the controls ... — Robert Kirkman

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt. — Robert Kirkman

I remember when my aunt died, the thing that pissed me off the most was going to get groceries the next day and seeing all those people who didn't care ... didn't understand why I was so upset when I saw her brand of cigarettes behind the counter. — Robert Kirkman

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope. — Robert Kirkman

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws. — Robert Kirkman

Life hurts a lot more than death. - Jim Morrison — Robert Kirkman

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

I guess in all of the obvious ways. I can afford more diapers for my children. If I want to buy a complete set of Garbage Pail Kids on Ebay I don't have to ask my wife so hard. For the most part, it's mostly the same. I keep my head down and I just work on comics for most of the time. — Robert Kirkman

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. - Nietzsche — Robert Kirkman

I don't presume to think I'm great at anything. — Robert Kirkman

I like good stories above all else ... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good. — Robert Kirkman

I make a lot more off the trades and Image than Marvel. — Robert Kirkman

You kill
You die.
That was probably the most naive thing I've ever said. The fact is
in most cases, NOW, the way things are
you kill
you LIVE. — Robert Kirkman

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

To me, the best zombie movies aren't the splatter fests of gore and violence with goofy characters and tongue in cheek antics. Good zombie movies show us how messed up we are, they make us question our station in society ... and our society's station in the world. They show us gore and violence and all that cool stuff too ... but there's always an undercurrent of social commentary and thoughtfulness. — Robert Kirkman

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line. — Robert Kirkman

Now get the fuck up off the ground so I can put you in it... like a coffin. Because you'll be fucking dead after I kill you, you fucking asshole. — Robert Kirkman

Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth. — Robert Kirkman

I WILL SKULL-FUCK EVERY ONE OF YOU CANNIBAL-COCKSUCKERS!!! I WILL RIP EVERY STINKING HEAD OFF EVERY FUCKING ONE OF YOU AND SHIT DOWN YOUR ROTTEN FUCKING NECKS — Robert Kirkman

Your mouth says "No," but your eyes say, "Fuck me until your dick breaks off inside me and fuses into some kind of barbie doll crotch. — Robert Kirkman

He closes his right eye and peers down the barrel with his left and fires. Lilly doesn't jerk at the noise - not — Robert Kirkman

Brian discovers that this first group features two bricklayers, a machinist, a doctor, a gun-store owner, a veterinarian, a plumber, a barber, an auto mechanic, a farmer, a fry cook, and an electrician. The second group - Brian thinks of them as the Dependents - features the sick, the young, and all the white-collar workers with obscure administrative backgrounds. These are the former middle managers and office drones, the paper pushers and corporate executives who once pulled down six-figure incomes running divisions of huge multinationals - now just taking up space, as obsolete as cassette tapes. — Robert Kirkman

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. — Robert Kirkman

The second we put a bullet in the head of one of those undead monsters
the moment one of us drove a hammer into one of their faces
or cut a head off. We became what we are! And that's just it. THAT's what it comes down to. You people don't know what we are.
We're surrounded by the DEAD. We're among them
and when we finally give up we become them! We're living on borrowed time here. Every minute of our life is a minute we steal from them! You see them out there. You KNOW that when we die
we become them. You think we hide behind walls to protect us from the walking dead?
Don't you get it? We ARE the walking dead! WE are the walking dead. — Robert Kirkman

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap. — Robert Kirkman