Quotes About Monsters And Heroes

#1. Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#2. You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.

Adhish Mazumder

#3. But such monsters as sphinxes bring forth the necessary heroes to defeat them, and because such heroes make civilization by the example of monster-taming, without the former there would be no civilization at all.

David D. Gilmore

#4. I dont understand, but understanding something isnt a prerequisite to feeling it. We dont have to understand things in order to be affected by them.

Josh James Riebock

#5. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

Rene Magritte

#6. Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Happiness, you will get, when life is kind

Mohammed F. Abad Alrazak

#8. I've played a couple of gay characters onstage, and it's always been something I'm comfortable with. I grew up in a family and a culture that doesn't have stigmas about sexuality.

Seth Numrich

#9. Monsters don't die. They just dissipate into smoke and dust, which saves heroes a lot of trouble cleaning up after a fight.

Rick Riordan

#10. What is more arrogant than honesty?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

Frank Deford

#12. Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer's most ancient task.

David Burr Gerrard

#13. 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

#14. Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

Wernher Von Braun

#15. The business behind the business is the real game. It's the business behind the business that makes money regardless of who wins the game or which way the market goes - up or down. It's the business that sells the tickets to the game. It does not buy the tickets.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#16. We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on!

Avijeet Das

#17. There are monsters among us, it's true. But there are heroes too.

Amie Kaufman

#18. Wherever we find monsters, there, too, we also find heroes.

Stephen T. Asma

#19. Monsters are eternal," she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing. "We will remember you and Damasen as heroes, as the best Titan and the best giant. We'll tell our children. We'll keep the story alive. Someday, you will regenerate.

Rick Riordan

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. If he'd had to judge based on the two of them, then ExtraOrdinaries were damaged, to say the least. But these words people threw around
humans, monsters, heroes, villains
to Victor it was all just a matter of semantics.

Victoria Schwab

#25. The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

Leslie Stephen

#26. He knows how to make me laugh & sometimes there's no better way to love someone than that.

Josh James Riebock

#27. There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

George R R Martin

#28. What I love about being a member of KISS is that we're the 'John Glenns' of rock - we always have to be the first in anything we do, and I love that.

Peter Criss

#29. Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

Josh James Riebock

#30. But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.

George R R Martin

#31. 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

#32. Social networks particularly will tend to converge and consolidate over time, especially because they're inherently governed by network effects. So the bigger ones will just get bigger, their value will multiply exponentially, and the smaller ones will become less and less relevant.

Clara Shih

#33. Sometimes, the monsters are terribly beautiful, and the heroes loathsome.

Yasmine Galenorn

#34. We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.
~Lew Fonesca

Stuart M. Kaminsky

#35. Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, "Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters."
More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

Rick Riordan

#36. 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

#37. The men who killed your monsters weren't heroes. They were even more frightening.

Lisa Henry

#38. Knowledge and belief are sometimes worlds apart.

Josh James Riebock

#39. It's not so much where I want you,Sophie, as it is how. Nothing tastes quite like a woman, and no woman tastes like you. - Marc Hunter

Pamela Clare

#40. I want love without drama, romance without pain. I want intimacy without vulnerability. I want a guarantee. I want something that doesnt exist. Maybe we all do. Maybe we're all chasing unicorns.

Josh James Riebock