MONSTERS QUOTES

quotations about monsters

Monsters quote

Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them.

GLEN DUNCAN

The Last Werewolf

Tags: Glen Duncan


Know that all my monsters are really smiling, in their hearts. Well, they would be if they had hearts.

DANIEL REEDER

Papier-Mache Monsters


Man is armed with craft and courage, which, untamed by justice, he will most wickedly pervert, and become at once the most impious and the fiercest of monsters.

ARISTOTLE

Politics

Tags: Aristotle


We often read of monstrous births; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son, and trains him up into a beast.

ROBERT SOUTH

attributed, Day's Collacon


Every monster was a man first.

EDWARD ALBEE

Tiny Alice

Tags: Edward Albee


We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

COLSON WHITEHEAD

Zone One


In a world of monsters, you had to be a ghost to survive.

ROB THURMAN

Nightlife

Tags: Rob Thurman


Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.

WILLIAM RITTER

Jackaby


The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr

Tags: Christopher Paolini


We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

MIKE CAREY

The Unwritten


Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

STEPHEN KING

The Shining

Tags: Stephen King


As a breath on glass,
As witch-fires that burn,
The gods and monsters pass,
Are dust, and return.

GEORGE STERLING

"The Face of the Skies"


There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

ANDRE GIDE

Autumn Leaves

Tags: Andre Gide


Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

DAVID SEDARIS

When You Are Engulfed in Flames

Tags: David Sedaris


She is so lovely she could kill you without you even noticing it. A monster girl who knows when to kiss and when to kill.

CAMERON JACE

Snow White Sorrow


A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.

KELLY LINK

Pretty Monsters

Tags: Kelly Link


A monster is a violation of nature.

JAMES ELLIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


For the monster as for the earthworm as for the man the world hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain, and we are here as on a darkling plain ...

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

Tags: Glen Duncan


Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Beyond Good and Evil

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


We are a race prone to monsters ... and when we produce one we worship it.

IAIN M. BANKS

Against a Dark Background

Tags: Iain M. Banks