316 Quotes About Dystopia

I'll survive. I'll live to destroy the reality.

It is pleasant to feel that somebody’s penetrating eye is watching you from behind your shoulder, lovingly guarding you from making the most minute mistake, from the most minute incorrect step. It may seem to you too sentimental, but I do see in all this the materialization of the dream of the ancients about a Guardian Angel. How many things, of which the ancients had only dreams, are materialized in our life!

The ultimate dystopia is the inside of one’s own head.

They listened to the soundtrack of their impending doom.

Does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well?

nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action

La normalità, diceva Zia Lydia, significa ciò cui si è abituati. Se qualcosa potrà non sembrarvi normale al momento, dopo un po' di tempo lo sarà. Diventerà normale." Margaret Atwood, Il racconto dell'ancella, traduzione di Camillo Pennati

our world is not the same as Othello's world. . . you can't make tragedies without social instability. The world's stable now.

Wilder went into his sons' bedroom. Glad to see Wilder, they banged their empty feeding-bowls with their plastic machine-pistols. They were dressed in miniature paratroopers' camouflage suits and tin helmets -- the wrong outfit, Wilder reflected, in light of what had been taking place in the high-rise. The correct combat costume was stockbrokers' pin-stripe, briefcase and homburg.