# Max Brooks - Quotes: 57 - Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks ## Books - [The Zombie Survival Guide](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/the-zombie-survival-guide.md) — 2 quotes - [World War Z](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z.md) — 55 quotes ## Recently added quotes > The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls — no matter what their label — these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/the-zombie-survival-guide/the-dead-walk.md) > 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. p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/the-zombie-survival-guide/joy-sadness-confidence.md) > We were in Hammond, Indiana, scouting defenses for the siege of Chicago. He spied a house at the end of a deserted street, completely intact except for boarded up windows and a crashed-in front door. He got a look on his face, a grin. We should have known way before he dropped out of formation, before we heard the shot. He was sitting in the living room, in this worn, old easy chair, SIR between his knees, that smile still on his face. I looked up at the pictures on the mantlepiece. It was his home. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/we-were-in-hammond.md) > For the first time in history, we faced an enemy that was actively waging total war. They had no limits of endurance. They would never negotiate, never surrender. They would fight until the very end because, unlike us, every single one of them, every second of every day, was devoted to consuming all life on Earth. That's the kind of enemy we had waiting for us beyond the Rockies. That's the kind of war we had to fight. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/for-the-first.md) > The Hospital.. that was our shining moment... the Hospital. [...] An advance team broke through without realizing what was on the other side. They could have withdrawn, blown the tunnel, sealed them in again... One squad against three hundred zombies. One squad led by my baby brother. His voice was the last thing we heard before their radio went silent. His last words: "On ne passe pas!" [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/the-hospital-that.md) > There was another reason for this partial evacuation, an eminently logical and insidiously dark reason that, many believe, will forever ensure Redeker the tallest pedestal in the pantheon of hell. Those who were left behind were to be herded into special isolated zones. They were to be “human bait,” distracting the undead from following the retreating army to their safe zone. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/there-was-another.md) > We were in the hallway when I heard Jenna scream. I ran to her room, threw open the door. Another one, big, I’d say six and a half feet with giant shoulders and bulging arms. The window was broken and it had Jenna by the hair. She was screaming. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/we-were-in-the.md) > Ignorance was the enemy. Lies and superstition, misinformation, disinformation. Sometimes, no information at all. Ignorance killed billions of people. Ignorance caused the Zombie War. Imagine if we had known then what we know now. Imagine if the undead virus had been as understood as, say, tuberculosis was. Imagine if the world’s citizens, or at least those charged with protecting those citizens, had known exactly what they were facing. Ignorance was the real enemy, and cold, hard facts were the weapons. (Page 194-195) [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/ignorance-was-the.md) > We lost a hell of a lot more than just people when we abandoned them to the dead. That's all I'm going to say. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/we-lost-a-hell.md) > They let us sleep as late as we wanted the next day. That was pretty sweet. Eventually the voices woke me up; everyone jawing, laughing, telling stories. It was a different vibe, one-eighty from two days ago. I couldn't really put a finger on what I was feeling, maybe it was what the president said about "reclaiming our future." I just knew I felt good, better than I had the entire war. I knew it was gonna be a real, long-ass road. I knew our campaign across America was just beginning, but, hey, as the prez said later that first night, it was finally the beginning of the end. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/they-let-us-sleep.md) > Paul Redeker always believed, well, perhaps not always, but at least in his adult life, that humanity’s one fundamental flaw was emotion. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/paul-redeker-always.md) > There's a little pond, in a small town in Poland, where they used to dump the ashes. The pond is still gray, even half a century later. I've heard it said that the holocaust had no survivors, that even those who managed to remain technically alive were so irreparably damaged, that their spirit, their soul, the person that they were supposed to be, was gone forever. I'd like to think that's not true. But if it is, then no one on Earth survived this war. [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/max-brooks/world-war-z/theres-a-little.md)