Monsters Fear Quotes

#1. People fear monsters. Monsters fear the Cannibal Owl." Nettie

Lila Bowen

#2. The weight of fear goes away as soon as we face our monsters and realize they weren't as scary as we thought.

Karen White

#3. Halloween was the best holiday, in my opinion, because it was all about friends, monsters, and candy, rather than family and responsibility.

Margee Kerr

#4. It is always thus. 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

#5. Silly little monster" all would say.
They'd scratch its head and turn away
until it snatched their tiny noses.
They couldn't even smell the roses!
Ever after, every child
dreaded monsters, fierce or mild.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#6. 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

#7. We fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves ...

John Geddes

#8. That these man-like creatures were in truth only bestial monsters, mere grotesque travesties of men, filled me with a vague uncertainty of their possibilities which was far worse than any definite fear.

H.G.Wells

#9. Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another.

Paul Cornell

#10. But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#11. I wanted to look calm, and to let them know that they could not demoralize us. I had no fear or sense of humiliation, only contempt for them. What had turned people into monsters? What

Jung Chang

#12. Death is the monster we all fear, yet with each day, we walk toward it, and can't help doing so; we can't help but walk toward the one thing we're most trying to avoid.

Bill Maher

#13. We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Stephen King

#14. The world we learned as children to fear
the milieu of goblins, ghosts, spirits, and magic - when it is the tangible world that is rife with unimaginable horrors. The truth is, we must fear monsters less and be warier of our own kind.
-from Dracula In Love

Karen Essex

#15. Did your father never teach you to hide your fear from monsters? They give chase if you run.

Cora Reilly

#16. Fear is a prison in which we place ourselves. You need only to press against the bars to realize that the door is always unlocked, and you are always free to leave.

Luna DeMasi

#17. I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.

Leslye Walton

#18. Her skin was warm and I could feel her heartbeat through her fingertips slowing as her heart struggled to keep her alive. Her body was trembling and I could sense the fear and pain she was experiencing. She did not deserve this. A lamb for the slaughter in this nightmare of monsters.

Eli Talrin

#19. Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime

Michael Franti

#20. He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.

Donald G. Firesmith

#21. Theres nothing to fear but
fears themselves, such as monsters,
rejection, food poisoning, redundancy,
monsters, and oxford commas.

Craig Benzine

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

Andre Gide

#23. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

J.K. Rowling

#24. Morgan's fury turned to fear. It was like antiseptic hitting pus: the seethe, the bubbling, the burn.

Laini Taylor

#25. I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#26. Uncle Ted's Advice
Kid, you gotta walk through the door of fear
and either
10,000 shiny new doors will open for you -
or you'll be eaten by monsters.
That's life!

Beryl Dov

#27. Sometimes, the only way to solve your problems in life, the only way to conquer your fears, is if you face them. If you face your problems, they just flee. But if you flee instead, run away from them, they only get bigger, and they can totally destroy you.

Elizabeth Newton

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

Mike Carey

#29. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.


I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.

Nikita Gill

#30. 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

#31. he constantly came up with more and more ways to publicly execute his detractors in the most gruesome of ways. There was a purpose to such barbarity; Granzool wanted to ensure that his people feared him more than they could ever fear the western monsters.

Shane Porteous

#32. There's nothing we fear more than our own Reflection. We scream at the monsters within us, hidden deep within our hearts. We run and hide from the terrors all around us- the different mirrors that we see.

Solange Nicole

#33. I suppose we all hit a point when no one has to describe fear & confusion for us anymore, a point when life carves it into us.

Josh James Riebock

#34. Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other.

Nhat Hanh

#35. A monster's worst fear is of being found.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#36. She had grown up in a time of monsters, and it was fear and cowardice that had kept her alive through the millennia.

Michael Scott

#37. Everything is worse ... if you think something is looking at you.

Shirley Jackson

#38. Childhood is this time of magic and monsters; hoping for one and fearing the other ... The worst part of being a kid is discovering which one exists ... So, I chose to believe in magic.

Thomm Quackenbush

#39. She kept her hand up in a victory salute. She had done the right thing. There had been no running away this time. She had faces the monsters and she had saved the people she loved. There wasno fear anymore. Just joy. She had won.

Rhiannon Frater

#40. All the horror and blood and monsters and fear crystallized to a fine thin shard inside her, harder than diamonds. What was one more monster in the face of so many?

Christina Henry

#41. Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Bernard Beckett

#42. We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world's deadliets assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of supervillains, and the security forces of every country on earth, but other than that ... just fear.

Mark Walden

#43. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#44. Since we have been primed to think of the subconscious as a closet of monsters to be avoided, we tend to fear it. Thus, we avoid the unconscious storage room where the creative solution is hidden.

Deborah Sandella

#45. Detraction's a bold monster, and fears not
To wound the fame of princes, if it find
But any blemish in their lives to work on.

Philip Massinger

#46. Those monsters in your closets and under your beds? They are just as real as us. The difference is that we fear what we don't understand, while they understand exactly, what we fear.

Rob Shepherd

#47. I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.

Samantha Shannon

#48. In nightmares, we can't look into our own eyes except by indirection, perhaps because we fear discovering that therein lie the worst monsters plaguing us.

Dean Koontz

#49. People unite against things. People fight when they're scared and threatened, not to change, not for the future. They get it wrong in the other Tales. People don't fight for heroes: they fight for the monsters. For fear of the monsters in the dark.

Leah Bobet

#50. Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Stephen King

#51. What unhappy beings men are! They constantly waver between false hopes and silly fears, and instead of relying on reason they create monsters to frighten themselves with, and phantoms which lead them astray.

Montesquieu

#52. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Niccolo Ammaniti

#53. So go to sleep, my little Brandon, my baby boy. You needn't fear. There are no monsters here.

George R R Martin

#54. Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them are things that look like things people used to be scared of a long time ago. Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren't.

Neil Gaiman