MONSTERS QUOTES
quotations about monsters
Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them.
GLEN DUNCAN
The Last Werewolf
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
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
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
In a world of monsters, you had to be a ghost to survive.
ROB THURMAN
Nightlife
Every monster was a man first.
EDWARD ALBEE
Tiny Alice
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"
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
COLSON WHITEHEAD
Zone One
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE
Autumn Leaves
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
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
STEPHEN KING
The Shining
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
We are a race prone to monsters ... and when we produce one we worship it.
IAIN M. BANKS
Against a Dark Background
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
We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.
MIKE CAREY
The Unwritten
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
A monster is a violation of nature.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
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