MONSTERS QUOTES IV

quotations about monsters

It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.

H. P. LOVECRAFT

"The Call of Cthulhu"

Tags: H. P. Lovecraft


Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

JACQUES DERRIDA

"Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other small Seismisms", The States of Theory

Tags: Jacques Derrida


I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words.

ALFRED DE VIGNY

Stello


Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.

ALICE SEBOLD

The Lovely Bones


O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Othello

Tags: William Shakespeare


The monsters are conundrums in God's creation;
Their contrary features defy a clear classification.
To all those monsters, certain things are common:
They have peculiar features that cause confusion;
They possess magical powers, and, what is more,
For each of those monsters there is always a hero
Who would either kill or disable it sooner or later.

DHARANIDHAR SAHU

Heroes and Monsters


Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils.

MARY MCCARTHY

"The Hue and Cry", The Writing on the Wall

Tags: Mary McCarthy


Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

UMBERTO ECO

The Name of the Rose

Tags: Umberto Eco


The real world is where the monsters are.

RICK RIORDAN

The Lightning Thief


What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.

WERNER HERZOG

attributed, Ethics and Medievalism

Tags: Werner Herzog


The female monster is certainly no deadlier than the male, but she is different. She is a sucking, strangling, trapping creature.

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

interview, The Telegraph, March 22, 1968

Tags: J. R. R. Tolkien


Monsters don't get happy endings.

PAULA STOKES

Ferocious


Although monsters are often cast opposite to organizations, throughout this book I have been trying to show that the relationship between monsters and organizations is deeply ambiguous. Sure, monsters disrupt boundaries of biological, moral and social organization, yet organizations continue to kill and exploit monsters. But rather than maintaining the binary opposition between monsters and organizations, this throws doubt on who the real monsters are.

T. THANEM

The Monstrous Organization


Our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.

EMM COLE

The Short Life of Sparrows


But these words people threw around--humans, monsters, heroes, villains--to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics. Someone could call themselves a hero and still walk around killing dozens. Someone else could be labeled a villain for trying to stop them. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.

V. E. SCHWAB

Vicious