Top 40 Robert Kirkman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers...”

— Robert Kirkman

2. “Don’t you get it? We are The Walking Dead!”

— Robert Kirkman

3. “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

4. “In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.”

— Robert Kirkman

5. “Sun keeps rising. Days keep passing. World keeps spinning. Time, it just keeps moving forward. Weeks, months, even years go by... while you try to make sense of it all. Try to find where you belong. Try to look ahead to a better future. But the truth is the path ahead has only grown darker. It’s harder to see. You can feel so lost, so alone, so desperate for something, anything that might show you the way.”

— Robert Kirkman

6. “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

7. “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

8. “I write the way I write.”

— Robert Kirkman

9. “I don’t presume to think I’m great at anything.”

— Robert Kirkman

10. “It’s nice to know that what you’re doing is being read and enjoyed by a good deal of people.”

— Robert Kirkman

11. “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

12. “Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.”

— Robert Kirkman

13. “I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I’m a light hearted superhero kind of guy.”

— Robert Kirkman

14. “It’s no secret that I love the Ultimate line.”

— Robert Kirkman

15. “It’s never-ever going to be okay, never-ever-ever-ever-ever.”

— Robert Kirkman

16. “Life hurts a lot more than death. – Jim Morrison.”

— Robert Kirkman

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky. – John Dryden.”

— Robert Kirkman

21. “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

22. “Well, don’t tell Steve Niles but I just don’t think horror works in comics.”

— Robert Kirkman

23. “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

24. “June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.”

— Robert Kirkman

25. “I will work on Invincible until I am made to quit.”

— Robert Kirkman

26. “As the Lady from Borneo digs out his eyeball, the thing eventually uncorks from its socket.”

— Robert Kirkman

27. “It is why he got the hell out of his hometown, Waynesboro, two days ago.”

— Robert Kirkman

28. “I have trouble writing if I can’t picture how things are going to look.”

— Robert Kirkman

29. “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

30. “I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.”

— Robert Kirkman

31. “If I’m grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.”

— Robert Kirkman

32. “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

33. “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

34. “Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we’re training him to kill the living?”

— Robert Kirkman

35. “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

36. “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

37. “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

38. “Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.”

— Robert Kirkman

39. “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

40. “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

41. “Well see, I’m a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.”

— Robert Kirkman

42. “Lo que hemos hecho por sobrevivir... A veces siento que no somos mejores que los muertos.”

— Robert Kirkman

43. “A severed ear sticks to the windshield, and Philip puts the wipers on. They.”

— Robert Kirkman

44. “When you’re really, really scared, you don’t shake like in the movies. You grow still, like an animal bristling. It’s only afterward you start shaking.”

— Robert Kirkman