Top 71+ of the Best Dystopia Quotes
Dystopia Quotes
- “Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?” – Anthony Burgess.
- “May you live in interesting times” – Chinese curse.
- “In the end, ‘I’m sorry’ will be one of the few phrases we actually remember.” – James Patterson
- “There’s something about our world that makes people want to become killers.” – Stephen King
- “The future is where everything new is happening, and where all the old stuff went.” – Neil Gaiman
- “I was once shot at by a policeman and lived to tell the tale.” – Octavia E. Butler.
- “I think there’s something about the way we live now, I think that there’s a sense of futility.” – George R.R Martin
- “There are two sides to every coin: yours and mine.” – Andy Rooney
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill
- “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
- “The things that matter most in life are not the ones that happen to you, but the ones that you decide to do.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Think less of your future as more of your past” – Carl Sagan
- “Aren’t we all products of what we were taught at home?” – Groucho Marx
- “If you are lucky enough to live in a free country, you can’t even have the illusion that your government is trustworthy.” – Christopher Hitchens
- “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “As I write this, my own people are killing my people by the thousands, so I guess that makes me kind of an evil person, doesn’t it?” – George R.R Martin
- “If at first you don’t succeed, give up. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” – W.C Fields
- “The supernatural is never the answer because the unnatural is preferable to nature.” – Clive Barker
- “Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
- “Nobody’s going to like you. Don’t worry about that. Just do what you think is right and keep going.” – Richard Bach
- “We are all, each of us, far too busy to be any use to anybody.” – Noel Coward
- “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Wall Street is not a place where you go to make money. It’s a place where you go to get rich.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
- “The more I learn, the more I realize that nobody knows anything.” – Thomas Edison
- “I was always told, ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all.’ And I think that’s probably a good rule.” – Richard Branson
- “I’m not saying that the world is going to hell in a handbasket, but it’s not surprising a lot of people think it is.” – Carl Sagan
- “One person can make a difference and every person should try.” – Paul Hawken
- “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Sir Winston Churchill
- “If you’re not part of the solution, it’s hard to be part of the problem.” – Harry Browne
- “I want to be a machine so that people will look at me and say, ‘There goes Mary!’” – Rosa Parks
- “It is not what we do in life that defines us. It is what we do with what life has given us.” – Gandhi
- “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” – J. K Rowling
- “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” – Robert Frost
- “If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney
- “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” – William Shakespeare
- “There’s not enough money in the world to buy back the time we lose sleep over every decision we make.” – Robert Kiyosaki
- “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.” – Joan Didion
- “All Christmases are gifts from God…even the ones that suck!” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
- “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.” – George Bernard Shaw
- “No good deed goes unpunished.” – Oscar Wilde
- “The wish for healing has always been half of health.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “Pessimism never won any battle.” – Sir Winston Churchill
- “When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.” – Walt Disney
- “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller
- “Wherever there is a will, there is a way.” – Henry Ford
- “Born to be alive and dying to be dead.” – Mark Twain (Mark Twain’s Trivia)
- “Before we make a decision, we must always ask ourselves: “Which side are you on?” – Claud Cockburn
- “Physicist: ‘What is the difference between real space… and your computer screen?’ Butch: ‘That’s easy. On the computer screen, the grass looks greener.'” – Butch jokes from Butch (a website where people share funny and true stories)
- “One person can make a difference.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T S Eliot
- “You don’t get rich by being a wiseass.” – George Carlin
- “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “It takes far less effort to find and move the right person than it does to find, hire, and train the wrong person.” – Warren Bennis
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
- “Happily for those who make themselves happy by contributing to the happiness of others.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain
- “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton (Wikiquote)
- “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” – Thomas Jefferson
- “The more boring the person, the more interesting the story they have to tell.” – Anon
- “You are not something that happened to you. You are something that happens to you.” – Anon
- “There are two tragedies in life – one is not to get your heart’s desire, and the other is to get it. The difference between these two is what separates man from animals.” – Mark Twain
- “There are people who claim to know everything, who think they know how all the world works, and those who do nothing but act as if they know, but have no idea why.” – Mark Twain
- “That’s the wonderful thing about Christmas: It’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keilor
- “The greatest gift of life is friendship.” – Aristoteles
- “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
- “Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
- “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney
- “You must accept that there is an end to all things. Nothing lasts forever. So, because what will be will be, enjoy what you have while it’s here.” – David Goggins
- “You can get out of anything if you’ll just make up your mind to do it.” – Floyd McClure
- “Failure is success if we learn from it.” – Malcolm S Forbes
- “At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato
- “The first question which the priest, the politician or the philosopher asks himself is: What is truth? The second question which he asks himself is: What is power? The third question which he asks himself is: What is knowledge? And the forth question which he asks himself is: What is happiness?” – Carl Jung
- “The most useless of all words, ‘maybe’, says quite enough.” – Oscar Wilde
- “It’s not what you look at that matters… it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde
- “We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s going to last forever.” – Stephen R. Donaldson (Stephen Donaldson’s Trivia)
- “The only thing harder than succeeding is to keep on succeeding.” – Henry Ford
- “In the race of life, talent is generally fatal, but stupidity is never without a witness.” – Elbridge S. Brooks
- “Because it was simple, it took a genius to think of it.” – Anonymous
- “The Bourgeois’s tragedy is not that he is poor, but that he is so rich.” – Karl Marx
- “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost” – J R R Tolkien
