"Creepy Post Apocalyptic Quotes" Topic

This one left an impression on me when I was a kid:

"Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout."
"May the Blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more."
- Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
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QUESTION:
So, what Post-Apocalyptic quotes (from books, movies, TMP discussions, talk over a gaming table, etc.) have you thought were clever and, at the same time, creepy???

CC

No matter where you go, there you are. (Mad Max 3)

"Gee, Snake, I thought you were dead."

"No matter where you go, there you are."

--This wasn't Buckaroo Banzai?

"The tests were incapable of detecting minor defects in the fetus, such as that it might be as tone deaf as Mary Hepburn, which it wasn't—or that it might be covered with a fine, silky pelt like a fur seal's, which would actually turn out to be the case."

Kurt Vonnegut.

"Just a whisper. I hear it in my ghost." – Maj. Kusanagi
"Well, I guess cyborgs like myself have a tendency to be paranoid about our origins." – Maj. Kusanagi

Maj. Kusanagi: "What the hell did you use?"
Batou: "Your standard issue big gun."

"Right now I'm hungry and I want to get laid."

-Boy and his Dog

"From the curse of the Fallout,
Oh Lord, Deliver us."

-A Canticle for Liebowitz
(and rendered wonderfully in the radioplay version)

If we aint supposed to eat people, den why's they made of Meat?

Joonyor Bloodberry-

"If you'll notice the arterial nature of the blood coming from the hole in my head, you can assume that we're all having a real lousy day." -- Deacon, "Waterworld"

'You gotta think about it like the first time you got laid. You gotta go: "Daddy, are you sure this is right?"' -- Tank Girl, "Tank Girl"

"I was a dog, but because I was really good, they moved me up to human being status. Ehh… sort of." -- Booga, "Tank Girl"

I'd pay a dollar to see that…

not sure what that was from, but its quite apropriate.

"I'd pay a dollar to see that…

not sure what that was from, but its quite apropriate."

Running man with the governator

"We need to get bigger guns. BIG ING GUNS!"
Dick Durkin "Split Second"

No, i believe it was from Robocop.

Robocop's was 'I'll Buy THAT for a Dollar!'

Pat

The "No matter where you go"-quote was uttered by Pig Killer in MM3. He might have thought it was a cool pre-Apocalyptic quote from Buckaroo, though.

"Well, if it comes down to it, I'll shoot and eat you. I need my horse, and besides, he's a much better person than you are. On second thought, I might not shoot you before I start."

"Just make sure you start at my toes, there's still a lot of this world I want to see."

-from a 50's book called RadZone.

I thought it was a good byplay, but also a bit… icky.

Survival kit contents check. In them you'll find: one .45 caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days concentrated emergency raisons; one drug issue containing: antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair a nylon stockings. Shoot, a fellah could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

Slim Pickens… Dr. Strangelove

Then of course when he's shouting Yeee-Hawww as he rides the bomb down.

From Cherry 2000:

Female Gang Member: Ginger, what are we going to do now?
Ginger: You guys want some sandwiches?
Male Gang Member: Lester's dead.
[points to Lester's hanging body]
Ginger: Well, no sandwiches for him.

The "No matter where you go"-quote was uttered by Pig Killer in MM3. He might have thought it was a cool pre-Apocalyptic quote from Buckaroo, though.

Buckaroo Bonzai: 1984
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome: 1985

I had though the two lines were slightly different, but IMDB doesn't seem to think so.

"Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste." – Blood to Albert after eating Albert's squeeze in 1975's "A Boy and His Dog"

"You're blaspheming again….I don't have to work with a blasphemer…."
"Better send a meat wagon, Charlie's copped a saucepan in the throat…."

From Harlan Ellison's original "A Boy and His Dog" novella, describing a post-apocalyptic radioactive mutant called a burnpit-screamer: "I remembered the way the green thing had screamed. Christ, it was all ooze and eyelashes."

"I present… the Ayatolla of Rock and rolla!!!"

I have no mouth. And I must scream.

"Do You Come Here Often", The Omaga Man

"You have aroused the three snakes "
:>
Hell comes to Frogtown ;>

"It was a pretty nice world, even if I did crumb up my marriage." Farnham's Freehold

"We *are* going to do something, aren't we? (Pause) There *is* something we can do, isn't there?" THE BEDFORD INCIDENT.

"What can you do with a man who tells you not to worry and if the worst comes to the worst he'll call in his F*&^%g starfleet and save the world?" The Battle for Disneyland.

"'You do not percieve any beauty?'

'Perhaps none remains after so long a time (without humans )' said Frost.

'It is not supposed to be the sort of thing which gets used up,' said Mondel" For A Breath I Tarry (Roger Zelazny)

"Why did they have to go and cut her for?" "She could have been used two, maybe three more times!" A boy and his dog.

" He was a real tough guy. Always just one step away from anything and cocky enough to tell you so to your face. Me and him were crossing the wasteland during the tail end of June and some of our tinned grub took to rot so he sent me out hunting for lizards, grubs whatever I could scare up.

He was a wonderful motivator. He threatened to shoot me and eat me when we ran out of food. He said he'd done it before and I figure he wasn't kidding about that. He said running wouldn't do me any good and I'd never get the drop on him in a fight so I might as well just accept it because things are the way they are and there's no changing 'em. I managed to catch a fat snake stashed under a rock and brought it back dosed up with some old tranqs. He was real happy to see that. Ate half of it and went to sleep with a big smile on his face.

The next day that fool woke up with no thumbs and no teeth. I assume he did anyway. I was long gone with the good tins, and the guns, and everything else I wanted that'd fit in my bags. He'd done it before but I doubt he's done it since. I left him a nice easy trail, but he knew better than to follow it. Funny thing is, I made a necklace of those teeth to wear but they were kind of bad for business so I just chucked 'em. "

"You take care of the one by the entrance? "

"No. Not really. I smashed its brain in with my pick but it wouldn't die so I hoofed it. "

"Yeah. Once they turn metal they don't really need the brain anymore but they keep it around for….sentimental reasons I guess. Sort of like holding on to old baby shoes. "

"Baby shoes?"

"Yeah. Back in the day babies wore shoes. Sometimes."

" Now, you're just making stuff up. "

"Ha-ha-ha! What's a little fallout, baby?" – bicycling water salesman from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

After the stories are told;the young dogs ask:
"What was a man?"

'The City' by Simak.

rough quote

I forgot about the two-sentence "last man on earth" super-short stories, which are pretty creepy when you think about them.

"The last man on earth sat in his room. There was a lock on the door."

"The last man on earth sat in his room. There was a knock on the door."

"The last man on earth sat in his room. He was not alone."

ACtually, Fredric Brown wrote a short story where the middle one of those was an incredibly happy ending, Jpattern2. It's called "Knock".

Claire, Weir's Woman: I have such wonderful, wonderful things… to show you…
Event Horizon

"last man on earth" stories…

Some of these have been quite good, some horrid.

Covert, I'll have to check that out, thanks.

Sorry, late to the party… Anyway, here are a few:

"Daddy would have gotten us Uzis."

"I'm not crazy! I just don't give a f@&k!"

"Get a new president."

"That there is Cundalini, and Cundalini wants his hand back."

"Ariel! Ookla! Ride!"

"This was our first encounter with disco mutants. I was sure it wouldn't be our last."

"Well, I'd certainly say she had marvelous judgment, Albert, if not particularly good taste."

Not quite post apocalyptic but it was a close run thing!
Bit of good old Mr Wells –

"Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us."