Top 100 Monsters In Quotes
#1. For the first time in my whole life, I feel like I have control over the monsters in my head. For the first time in my life, I have hope.
Mia Sheridan
#2. There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
Finn Wittrock
#3. I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#4. Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.
John Steinbeck
#5. The monsters in my head are scared of love ...
Diplo
#6. How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men
even if there are monsters in it.
Bram Stoker
#8. 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
#9. I am going to bed. i will have nightmares involving huge monsters in academic robes carrying long bloody butcher knives labeled Excerpt, Selection, Passage, and Abridged.
Helene Hanff
#10. When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.
Jim Jarmusch
#11. There are monsters in all walks of life. One doesn't need unlimited power to create victims. One only needs to be desperate.
John Jackson Miller
#12. There are some power-abusing, corrupt monsters in our federal government that despise me because I have the audacity to speak the truth.
Ted Nugent
#13. There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren't.
Simon Rich
#14. And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.
G.K. Chesterton
#15. My island was not wild, compared to this.
There are such monsters in a palace.
Foz Meadows
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Vampires and humans; we are all monsters in our own way at the end of a dream, or a nightmare.
Cameron Jace
#19. I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.
Carole Bouquet
#20. There's monsters in every closet. You don't get rid of monsters by shining a fucking flashlight on them, though. You know how you deal with monsters? It's simple. I'm going to fucking tell you exactly how right now. You become a bigger monster.
Ethan Winters
#21. It was completely unshocking that there were monsters in the world, secret
rituals and underground burrows filled with the dead, when in my own way, I was secret and sort of monstrous too. It just didn't show in the same way.
Brenna Yovanoff
#22. To teach her that not all monsters are monsters in the beginning, and not all monsters look like monsters. Some carry their monstrosity inside.
Fredrik Backman
#23. There's nothing wrong with having a few monsters in the shadows. They keep me remembering what it is that I'm walking away from.
Seanan McGuire
#24. The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.
Catherine O'Hara
#25. What kind of work would be done if Hercules took to spinning wool in safe places, while Omphales turned out to do battle with monsters in his stead? What kind of men should we have as the result of the exchange?
Eliza Lynn Linton
#26. The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In their view, the monsters reach up, grab you by the ankles, and try to drag you down.
Doris Lessing
#27. 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
#29. I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
Soren Kierkegaard
#30. These are the insidious monsters in our heads making us do ourselves in.
Chris Shelton
#31. We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#32. The monsters in our cupboards and our minds are always there in the darkness, like mould beneath the floorboards and behind the wallpaper, and there is so much darkness, an inexhaustible supply of darkness. The universe is amply supplied with night.
Neil Gaiman
#33. There are monsters in the world. They're called human beings. - Michael Diamond, from The Life Beyond
Douglas Clegg
#34. But the thing about monsters was, you couldn't talk to them about it, because they wouldn't admit they were monsters in the first place.
Lev Grossman
#35. We start by working with the monsters in our mind. Then we develop the wisdom and compassion to communicate sanely with the threats and fears of our daily life.
Pema Chodron
#36. Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.
Marianne Williamson
#37. You know, my basic theory about kids: they are monsters in children ziploc suits, which they discard when they go to school each day.
Douglas Clegg
#38. All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#39. There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
Shannon L. Alder
#40. I grew up as a little 4- and 5-year-old kid, watching Phil Tippett and my dad make monsters in our garage. That's what I did, as a child.
Robert Stromberg
#41. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly: That's not so ignorant after all. There are two monsters in my story, not one And one of them, the scientist, is indeed named Frankenstein.
Kurt Vonnegut
#42. Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans
John Steinbeck
#43. If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?
Carl Sagan
#44. Now, now, you aren't afraid of monsters in the dark, are you?" I caught a flash of her eyes, winking wickedly at me.
"No," I said, shivering. After all, I was one of them.
Kiersten White
#45. 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
#46. People tell their children there are no monsters in the world. They tell them that because they believe it, or they want the child to feel safe. But there are monsters, Luke, all the more frightening because they look like people.
Nora Roberts
#48. 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
#49. If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.
Andrew Lang
#50. 'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent. We're always kind of looking for those emotional nuggets. They're always at the heart of the story.
Pete Docter
#51. He said the only real monsters in this world are human beings.
Cat Winters
#52. Because not all monsters were monsters in the beginning. Some are monsters born of sorrow.
Fredrik Backman
#53. You say that like I have a choice. These are the ideas that come to me. These are the ideas that have always come to me. If it can bleed me,eat me, or fuck me, I want to write about it. -L.K. on why she writes about sex and monsters in 'Flirt' Afterword
Laurell K. Hamilton
#54. Once upon a time, I was a little girl with a mom and a dad and a sister, and the only monsters in the world were imaginary.
Then I became one of the monsters.
Kiersten White
#55. Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
Patricia Briggs
#56. We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.
Mackenzi Lee
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
Primo Levi
#61. 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
#62. From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
Michael Foreman
#63. The monsters we can't see, the ones that dwell only in our minds, are the scariest ones of all. Because there's only one way to fight those monsters. With the help of someone who loves you.
Cassia Leo
#64. The burly woodsman who attaks the diminutive pine of the east must experience remorse, as would a strong man who made war upon a boy, but [the Redwood] is something to compel his respect; he must feel that in grappling with these monsters he is doing the work of a Hercules.
Jared Farmer
#65. Whatever the State saith is a lie; whatever it hath is a theft: all is counterfeit in it, the gnawing, sanguinary, insatiate monster.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#66. everybody-even monsters-needed a little attention once in a while.
Rick Riordan
#67. Monsters never get the princess in real life, but I'm selfish enough to want to keep you near me for as long as I can.
Alyssa Day
#68. I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David .
Jose Marti
#69. Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.
John Malkovich
#70. But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.
Rick Yancey
#71. The monsters were never under our bed, but in the forest our future.
Crystal Woods
#72. 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
#73. I don't believe in monsters."
"Well, Red, I think you might want to start." Pike turned and looked him in the eye. "What do you think those green things were? And what do you think is trying to smash its way in here? A pony?
Jack Keely
#74. The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
Ted Naifeh
#76. Basically, there is nothing new in the behavior of monsters, for the monster himself is nothing more than an invention of his victims.
Kobo Abe
#77. Her new enemy, but perhaps the monsters needed to look out for each other every now and then.
You are too good of a fighter to kill, but if i die here because of you, ill beat the shit out of you in hell
Sarah J. Maas
#78. Vampires were hardly the monsters we were made out to be in fairy tales and television shows. We were hardly different from humans, but for the genetic mutation, fangs, silvering eyes, and periodic penchant for blood.
What? I said hardly different.
Chloe Neill
#79. O how he loves you, darling boy. Oh how, like always, he invents the monsters underneath the bed to get you to sleep next to him, chest to chest or chest to back, the covers drawn around you in an act of faith against the night.
Richard Siken
#80. There often is a dark secret in books ... There is often a gathering sense of dread; there's a gap sometimes in the text from which all kinds of monsters can emerge.
Anne Enright
#81. The past is a tricky thing. Sometimes it's etched in stone. And other times, it's rendered in soft memories. But if you meddle too long in deep, dark things... Who knows what monsters you'll awaken?
Emily Thorne
#82. I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
Xavier Dolan
#84. Be careful in the company of monsters that you don't become one.
Cindy Gerard
#85. I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them? It's no big deal, but then I've been doing it since I got out of diapers.
Minda Webber
#86. There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.
Lisa Loeb
#87. Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.
Bryan Fuller
#88. Sometimes the monsters are not monsters, she says.
I know. I nod. And sometimes the monsters are within us all, even in those we think are most good.
Carrie Jones
#89. On old maps, cartographers would draw strange beasts around the margins and write phrases such as "Here be dragons." That's where monsters exist: in the unmapped spaces, in the places where we haven't filled in all the gaps ...
Kelly Link
#90. 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
#91. It is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.
Stanislaw Lem
#92. We're altered, we're abnormal, our souls stained with each other's mark. Our souls are that of monsters born in the dark.
Pepper Winters
#93. I wanted monsters that ate whole cities, radioactive corpses that came out of the ocean and ate surfers, and girls in black bras who looked like trailer trash. Horror movies, science fiction movies, movies about losers on motorcycles- this was the stuff that turned my dials up to ten.
Stephen King
#94. White magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
Iris Murdoch
#95. We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts.
Victor Hugo
#96. There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.
Joe Hill
#97. The whole psychoanalytical establishment in America at midcentury was geared to make people with homosexual proclivities feel like monsters, moral degenerates.
Blake Bailey
#98. The scariest thing about monsters is that they hide. They hide in your head where no one else can see them, making it feel almost as if no one can save you from them.
Meghan Blistinsky
#99. It's hard not to be in favor of taking down monsters.
Michael Ledeen
#100. We all fight monsters, she knew. There was no shame in losing.
Kameron Hurley
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