Isaac Marion Warm Bodies Quotes & Sayings

All the shitty stuff people do to themselves ... it can all be the same thing, you know? Just a way to drown out your own voice. To kill your memories without having to kill yourself. — Isaac Marion

I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bite somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts -Warm Bodies — Isaac Marion

I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse. — Isaac Marion

I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points. — Matt Kuchar

Stop shrugging, shrugger. — Isaac Marion

We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering. — Isaac Marion

This female and I have fallen in love — Isaac Marion

I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my numb, limited way I felt envy and wanted to eat them all the more — Isaac Marion

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it. — T. S. Eliot

As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights. — Rene Cassin

Only God Himself could keep me from you, love. — Shiloh Walker

The simple willingness to improvise is more vital, in the long run, than research. — Rolf Potts

'Warm Bodies' ended up becoming one of the most personal relatable things I've written. — Isaac Marion

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today? — Nicholas Sparks

The harder a place is to reach, the more likely reaching it will be worthwhile. — Isaac Marion

We barely know who we are and yet we are forever searching for the answers to the most basic of questions. — Joann Buchanan

I notice faint scars on her wrists and forearms, thin lines too symmetrical to be accidents. — Isaac Marion

Everything you see, you might be seeing for the last time. — Isaac Marion

I can't seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present. — Isaac Marion

I smiled back and I thought
how incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn't always see it. — Jenny Valentine

Are my words ever actually audible, or do they just echo in my head while people stare at me, waiting? — Isaac Marion

Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking! — Sophie Blackall

ARE YOU ASKING ME WHAT THOUGHTS YOU SHOULD THINK?? What kind of Orwellian police state do you think I'm running here? Think whatever thoughts come into your thinking device, sir. (response to a reader asking what to keep in mind while reading Warm Bodies) — Isaac Marion

I feel the flatline of my existence disrupting, forming heartbeat hills and valleys — Isaac Marion

Whatever our path, whatever the color or grain of our days, whatever riddles we must solve to stay alive, the secret of life somehow always has to do with the awakening and freeing of what has been asleep. — Mark Nepo

The psychological fact of suggestion is that if statements are made again and again in a confident manner, without argument or proof, then their hearers will tend to believe them quite independently of their soundness and of the presence or absence of evidence for their truth. — Robert H. Thouless

So they won't hear me," Fuka-Eri said quietly. — Haruki Murakami

She hugs me. It's tentative at first, a little scared, and yes, a little repulsed, but then she melts into it. She rests her head against my cold neck and embraces me. Unable to believer what's happening, I put my arm around her and just hold her.
I almost swear I can feel my heart thumping. But it must just be hers, pressed tightly against my chest. — Isaac Marion

I don't know ... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die? — Isaac Marion

Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes. — Isaac Marion