Top 78 Human Monsters Quotes
#1. Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity. Instead, they reveal the cowardice at the core of their brutality.
Dean Koontz
#3. I've been held down like a piece of meat while monsters disguised as men violated me again & again.
Gladys Lawson
#4. Human kind isn't meant to be free; helium balloons are free. - from Monsters of the Apocalypse
Jordan Rawlins
#5. Damn this human who had come into her life and made himself so important to her; had made coming to terms with her inner monster that much more difficult to bear.
Samantha Young
#6. We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole populations; but examples of wise social planning are not so easy to find.
Thomas More
#7. sight. So I was still attracted to Jean-Claude. I might even, in some dark corner, love him a little. It didn't matter. Loving the monsters always ends badly for the human. It's a rule. That
Laurell K. Hamilton
#8. Human beings are no damn good," he said. "We are even worse than animals. We like ... "
He trailed off, cleared his throat, but his voice hardly reached a whisper.
"We like monsters," he said.
Victor LaValle
#9. You know what? Fuck it. Just fuck it. The Rising didn't manage to wipe out the human race, it just made us turn into even bigger assholes than we were before. Hear that, mad science? You failed. You were supposed to kill us all, and instead you turned us into monsters.
Mira Grant
#10. Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.
Harold Ramis
#11. The world is as I always intuited it to be: weird, fractured and full of monsters.
Charlie Human
#12. It was as natural as breathing to all human beings, and to all warm-blooded creatures, for that matter, to wish quick deaths for monsters. This was an instinct.
Kurt Vonnegut
#13. You make them sound human."
"Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."
She couldn't argue with that.
Jeyn Roberts
#14. It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.
William Golding
#16. We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.
Iain M. Banks
#17. There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings. - Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond
Douglas Clegg
#18. He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person.
Charlie Jane Anders
#19. We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#21. What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?
Brandon Sanderson
#22. I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
Suzanne Collins
#23. When we listen for feelings and needs - we can see that people who seem like monsters are simply human beings whose language and behavior sometimes keep us from seeing their humanness.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#24. We were king's men, knights, and heroes ... but some knights are dark and full of terror, my lady. War makes monsters of us all."
"Are you saying you are monsters?"
"I am saying we are human. You are not the only one with wounds, Lady Brienne
George R R Martin
#25. He said the only real monsters in this world are human beings.
Cat Winters
#26. Not all monsters were three-ton reptiles with poisonous breath. Many wore human faces.
Rick Riordan
#27. The world was not perfect. It was dark, evil, and full of monsters in human disguise. The world's a horrible place, and you were no safer surrounded by family than you were wandering the streets alone.
Natasha Preston
#28. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
Leonard Cohen
#29. The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first ... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
Rachelle Lefevre
#30. Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
Catherynne M Valente
#31. WANG. We live in a time of great change. It is easy to find monsters- and as easy to find heroes. To judge rightly what is good - to choose between good and evil - that is all that is to be human.
Edward Bond
#32. A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.
Anthony Marra
#33. It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.
Kate Beckinsale
#34. If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.
Ice Cube
#35. Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!'
("The Man In Crescent Terrace")
Seabury Quinn
#36. Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
Sue Grafton
#37. You're a good man who happens to be a vampire. We aren't human, but that doesn't make us monsters.
Drew Hayes
#38. I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents
John Steinbeck
#39. Monsters were real. They wore human flesh and looked out from behind the eyes of seemingly benign people. You passed them on the street every day, never knowing they'd marked you as prey until it was too late.
Liana LeFey
#40. But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around
they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.
Ransom Riggs
#41. Often, the monsters we create in our imagination are not nearly as frightening as the monstrous acts perpetrated by ordinary human beings in the aim of one cause or another.
Libba Bray
#43. There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing.
Harald Zwart
#44. Of all teachings that which presents a far distant God is the nearest to absurdity. Either there is none, or he is nearer to every one of us than our nearest consciousness of self. An unapproachable divinity is the veriest of monsters, the most horrible of human imaginations.
George MacDonald
#45. One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters.
Aldous Huxley
#46. But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.
Rick Yancey
#47. We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.
Sophie Jordan
#48. The more they evolved from monsters into angsty, sexy superheroes, the more the odds of a human being surviving an encounter with an angry vampire shrank to nothing.
Jim C. Hines
#49. We are animals and as animals we kill to survive. Unfortunately some of us are monsters and kill just because they can.
Richard Myerscough
#50. Men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.
M.J. Rose
#51. Plenty of humans were monstrous, and plenty of monsters knew how to play at being human.
Victoria Schwab
#52. It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.
Samantha Young
#53. People fail to realize that horror isn't just monsters and death. Sometimes, it's learning to accept the darkness of human nature.
Kayla Krantz
#54. If you battle monsters, you don't always become a monster. But you aren't entirely human anymore, either.
Jonathan Maberry
#55. We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.
Robert Hayden
#56. Was Lucifer a demon determined to ruin Eve and spawn a species of monsters? Or was he a fallen angel so in love with a human woman he destroyed paradise for a kiss? We will never know. And perhaps we shouldn't ask why Lucifer tempted Eve at all, but another question: Why did she give in?
Sylvia Frost
#57. When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?
Rebecca McNutt
#58. Monsters like us can learn to be human beings from watching movies
Shane Kuhn
#59. There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters. Then
Hannu Rajaniemi
#60. If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.
Joseph Bruchac
#61. Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons due to the distance afforded by the fantastical elements than they are a story revolving around horrors committed by human beings.
Joseph Abbruscato
#62. Fingerprint, he writes. A map to mark the spaces you've inhabited. A map you make yourself, quadrant by quadrant, inch by inch, until the landscape of your life looks like a vast and unexplored terrain. Here there be monsters, it will say.
Amber Sparks
#63. Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.
Frank Spotnitz
#64. The only monsters in this world are those who pass for human, who cast shadows and are reflected in mirrors, who smile and speak of compassion and shed convincing tears.
Dean Koontz
#65. It's not the monsters who are so completely different that are scary, Sanjit reflected. It's the ones who are too human. They carry with them the warning that what happened to them might happen to you, too.
Michael Grant
#66. Why do you assume I'm human?
I wasn't born; I was created just like this.
First I was an idea.
Then I came into being, charged with a very important task.
I've come to find the monster.
Eliza Granville
#67. ...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.
Christopher G. Nuttall
#68. I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again.
Munia Khan
#69. Lifting my face from the dirt, I notice that I am below a dome filled with wild monsters and creatures that aren't even close to human. I stand in a dazed state momentarily, until a hot laser grazes my cheek. I am in an arena, and this is a fight to the death.
Julie Wenzel
#70. But if they have a flashlight, it means they're human and not some kind of monsters from the surface,' objected Artyom.
"I don't know what's worse," said Melnik, cutting off Artyom.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#72. Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
Stephen King
#73. An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [ ... ] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.
George R R Martin
#74. Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.
Kelley Armstrong
#75. Einstein's Monsters, by the way, refers to nuclear weapons, but also to ourselves. We are Einstein's monsters, not fully human, not for now.
Martin Amis
#76. I'd thought to protect Nate from monsters, but I forgot they came in human form, too.
Karen Lynch
#77. I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.
Rian Johnson
#78. You are asking us to lie, Colonel?"
"I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the ... the infinite gradations of human venality, that particular sin ranks low." The old man kneaded the folds of his throat. "What happened out there belongs out there. The jungle has it; let the jungle keep it ...
Louis Bayard
