Monster Within Quotes

#1. We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

Douglas Preston

#2. He reminded me of pain and darkness and a double-gauzed finger. I must have reminded him of botched-up vengeance and the monster within,

Leylah Attar

#3. Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within - for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.

Suetonius

#4. And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!

Rick Riordan

#5. I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

George A. Romero

#6. Knowledge is knowing Frankenstein is not the monster. Wisdom is knowing that he is.

Anonymous

#7. To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

Haniel Long

#8. Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do."

"Is it? Even if you're a monster?

Heather R. Blair

#9. Without a doubt I understand the monster and I are more than just friends. We're blood brothers.

Ellen Hopkins

#10. Some dark nights hide the cruelest of secrets. Such are the tales of the dark shadows hidden in that old castle in a distant land. The story of ages started with a classic; highlighting the infamous monster made out of a man.

Adhish Mazumder

#11. It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

Jim Butcher

#12. Maybe he should have thought about all this before he knocked her up with the life-sucking monster.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth.

Hermann Hesse

#14. And in a terrible moment, though her body chose to fight the monster that was stalking her, her soul refused such a death and leap from her body to continue its flight.

Kate Danley

#15. 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

#16. More important by far is that one be honest with oneself. I have always been, and it has cost me dearly. Nothing matters but the truth. I have dedicated my life to the pursuit of it, no matter where it hides. That is the heart of science, Will Henry, the true monster we pursue.

Rick Yancey

#17. The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Percy!' Annabeth scolded. 'You just opened another Monster Doughnut shop somewhere!

Rick Riordan

#19. I was too scared to open my eyes. It was the logic of a child; if you don't open your eyes, the monster won't see you.

Kathleen Peacock

#20. What kind of person doesn't know whether her father was a king or a monster?

J.C. Carleson

#21. Because you're the monster, not me." I say. "I may have scales and claws and the ability to tear you limb from limb without breaking a sweat, but a monster exists in the mind. A monster is a creature of hate, not form.

Sarah Nicolas

#22. The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

David Frum

#23. Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.

Jacquelyn Nicole Davis

#24. Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Margaret Atwood

#25. There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.

Chloe Thurlow

#26. Under the volcano! It was not for nothing the ancients had placed Tartarus under Mt. Aetna, nor within it, the monster Typhoeus, with his hundred heads and - relatively - fearful eyes and voices.

Malcolm Lowry

#27. Perversion is a sleeping monster; art is a fanning mistress. Art serves the perversion that is deep and often dormant within human beings.

Thiruman Archunan

#28. slaying everything within reach in order to quiet the monster that gnaws at their vitals.

Henry Miller

#29. So he explored, explored within himself, scanning himself with a lamp, as if it were not himself at all but some strange monster that he had been commanded to guard.

Hermann Bahr

#30. Later, much later, as an adult woman, she wrote of her need to be loved, to be desired, as a ravenous monster with an exigent appetite living in a black hole within. Whatever love was thrown her way, the monster devoured it and left her with nothing.

Rabih Alameddine

#31. What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it's as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it.

John Vamvas Olga Montes

#32. For the "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must never be placed first within a man's soul, else it becomes a monster, the root of all evils on earth, the root of man's torture by men, and an unspeakable lie.

Ayn Rand

#33. As far back as I can remember, I've utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of the Race like a timorous monster, lacking the energy to claim kinship with some other band of apes.

Emil M. Cioran

#34. I am not a monster. I'm not all bad. Maybe 10 percent. I think I'm 90 percent good.

John McEnroe

#35. Mary was the darkness to my monster. The blood to my blade.

Alaska Angelini

#36. I wasn't born a monster, though my choices certainly have made me one. But I can't stop myself. I can't. Causing pain to others when I'm suffering soothes me.

Mia Asher

#37. As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.

Thomm Quackenbush

#38. The respect I have for her has bloomed into this monster that's taken up residence inside of me, made me fall hard for a girl I'll never get.

C.M. Stunich

#39. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Oscar Wilde

#40. The monster towered ten or twelve feet tall. Its bright green leathery skin was covered in dirt,
moss, leaves, and patches of grass, the stench repulsive. His teeth gleamed brown. Evidently he
wasn't aware of the multitude of whitening products on the market.

A&E Kirk

#41. A woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#42. I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.

Halle Berry

#43. Stay sunny, we said.
Because if you don't everyone will know you're a monster

Katie Alender

#44. My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.

Jenny Offill

#45. There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast.
They were always wrong.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#46. It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat.

Patrick Ness

#47. The monster always approaches from the direction you least expect.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#48. My favorite novel in the world is Frankenstein. I'm going to misquote it horribly, but the monster says, "I have such love in me, more than you can imagine. But, if I cannot provoke it, I will provoke fear."

Guillermo Del Toro

#49. Just who am I?" the rough baritone asked in the infuriatingly amused tone one might use with a temperamental child. You're a monster, she wanted to say. A giant - huge and thickly muscled and terrifying. But she flung back her answer like her papa's own daughter. "You're the rebel bastard Glen Lyon.

Kimberly Cates

#50. What are you?" Lady Marsden asked, not bothering to hide her surprise. Obviously the lady was not accustomed to being caught snooping, let alone shut down twice.
"I have no idea,

Kady Cross

#51. Who was the monster, here?

Liesl Shurtliff

#52. Sylvi wished she could gouge out the look in Dorogin's stony eyes, and change the course of history. She wished Fthoom had been eaten by a sea monster.

Robin McKinley

#53. The monster of advertisement ... is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to right and left, in front and behind, its clammy arms, and gathers in, through its thousand little suckers, all the gossip and slander and praise afloat ...

Sarah Bernhardt

#54. Most of us happily disavow fairies, astrology and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, without first immersing ourselves in books of Pastafarian theology etc.

Richard Dawkins

#55. At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

Alistair Begg

#56. It would change everything, gentlemen. It would shift the entire balance of power in Europe-maybe the world. Alexander conquered half of it. Think what he would have done with arrows dipped in monster snot!

Rick Yancey

#57. The monster is peeking through, peering at me from behind his mask. He wants to come out. He wants me to play with him.

J.M. Darhower

#58. But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes ... and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Melina Marchetta

#59. Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

John Irving

#60. Murderer!" I shouted "Monster!"
"All of those things.

Leigh Bardugo

#61. V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. My monster needs to get out. Especially now.

J.R. Ward

#62. We're all someone's monster, Nina.

Leigh Bardugo