Quotes About Monsters Inside Us

#1. We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

Charles Darwin

#2. We stop looking for monsters under our beds when we realize they are inside us.

Charles Darwin

#3. Some people wore their ugly deep inside where nobody could see it. Those were the most dangerous monsters of all.

Jaden Wilkes

#4. Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch ...

John Geddes

#5. Sometimes, there are monsters inside of us all, even in the ones we think are the most good." ~Zara White

Carrie Jones

#6. There are hundreds of thousands of kids walking around with a sleeping monster inside them.

Mackenzie Phillips

#7. He's a gentle giant, harmless and soft, like a teddy bear.

Except deep down, I know he's not.

And when his eyes cut my way, and I see the darkness on the surface, I'm reminded that this man hangs out with monsters.

And one might even exist inside of him.

J.M. Darhower

#8. We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)

Francesca Lia Block

#9. But before I left," Rider continued, "I learned enough to know that most often sexual abuse of children comes from inside the family, relatives or close friends. The boogey monsters who climb through the window and abduct are few and far between.

Michael Connelly

#10. We all have monsters inside of us, and we all have an inner child in us. You always think about your inner child as being the sweet and innocent part of yourself, but it's also the part that's all ego with the mentality of, "If the world isn't pleasing me, it isn't doing its job."

Finn Wittrock

#11. She is afraid, and yet she wants the priest to see inside her and accept the monsters that wrap around the secret, pure part of her--the part she managed to save, miraculously, that so many of us have lost. she knows the monsters are there and yet wants to be seen.

Rene Denfeld

#12. I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

Clive Barker

#13. Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#14. Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

#15. Monsters can live inside a person. Sometimes they know about it. More often they don't.

Nikki Rae

#16. Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Stephen King

#17. He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, "Beyond here be monsters." ... He stepped into the beyond, and found the monsters hidden deep inside all the reasonable, gentle, laughing people. He went where even they were afraid to go.

Louise Penny

#18. You gotta show kids YOU'RE not scared (even if inside at times you are) and when you show you're not afraid of the "monsters" then they too will stand up even when the lights are off.

Jill Telford

#19. The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#20. 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

#21. Not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.

Fredrik Backman

#22. 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

#23. The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.
I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistake
me again.

Carol Oates

#24. We're all monsters," he says. "Everyone of us. No matter what you want to believe, believe this. We will all fight. We will all kill. Every person you've ever met, the monster lives inside them all.

M. Arthur

#25. I write about the scariest monsters: The ones inside us all. And the ones that want to eat what is inside us all.

Aaron Marcusson

#26. 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

#27. Real monsters eat you from the inside out.

Dia Reeves

#28. Aren't we all monsters inside?

Lucy

#29. The monsters don't live in the belly of the world like they all say. The monsters live inside of us. We make the monsters.

Kameron Hurley

#30. Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.

Travis Thrasher

#31. 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

#32. It didn't seem the right time to tell him where the worst monsters hide. They conceal themselves cleverly inside our heads and wait for the moments we're at our most vulnerable - bedtime, or when we're sick or anxious.

Helen Brown

#33. Monsters don't sleep under your bed, they scream inside of your head

Unknown

#34. We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.

Bill Condon