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Quotes About Monsters

Why do we celebrate the monsters, the destroyers, the killers among us?
~ Lisa Unger
Not that people did much sailing on Ylla's extensive oceans, nor swimming either—Yllan seawater tended to give humans strange rashes, and while humans were highly toxic morsels in the diet of the native sea monsters, the monsters were extremely stupid and kept not figuring this out.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man.
~ Lord Dunsany
She looked pink and beseeching, though essentially she looked the same, as people do despite the fact they have begun to turn into monsters and are about to tell you something that should require horns or fangs or vaulted eyebrows but never apparently does.
~ Lorrie Moore
If a monster says hello to you, you should say hello to it. If you don't, then I have to wonder which one of you is really the monster.
~ Louis Sachar
Los monstruos se ocultan en el lóbrego vientre del silencio doméstico.
~ Rosa Montero
Los monstruos se ocultan en el lóbrego vientre del silencio doméstico - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero
~ Rosa Montero
My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.
~ Russell T. Davies
We are in a world in which misery condemns some to death and transforms others into monsters. The former are the victims, the latter are the executioners. There is no one else.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
I repeat: there is no place for monsters in civilized society. If such creatures roam the earth, they do so out on its uttermost rim, consigned to peripheries by conventions of disbelief...but once in a blue moon something goes wrong. A Beast is born, a 'wrong miracle', within the citadels of propriety and decorum.
~ Salman Rushdie
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
~ Andre Gide
Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours. I own that I am lost in wonder to find myself promoted to an honor of which I feel myself unworthy—
~ Alexandre Dumas
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
Franny entwined her legs with his. She understood why ancient monsters were often made of two creatures, with two hearts and minds. There was strength in such a combination of opposites.
~ Alice Hoffman
And what of monsters? Can they love too? We know quite well they can. For we know that they do.
~ Alice Hoffman
You don't hide what you think is beautiful. You hide what is broken. You hide when you're a monster.
~ Alice Hoffman
But these were desperate times. And in desperate times, one must sometimes call upon the services of monsters.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Que sea el monstruo el que pronuncie la sentencia de muerte para que así los demás podamos seguir pensando que somos gente inocente
~ Joe Abercrombie
Standing each by his monster, they looked at each other, and smiled
~ E. M. Forster
We weren't heroes. We were killers. That's the reason we survived so long… Because this world belongs to monsters...It shouldn't.
~ Ed Brubaker
James Baldwin's words haunt: "People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster." Are we a nation of monsters?
~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Aiden, we're going to sing 'Let It Go' now. I'm not trying to rile you up. I just want to see if the octopus thing reacts, all right?" He held his hand out for Eliza. "No," she said. "Sing something else. Please, Jared." "Okay, no Elsa. How about Nickelback?" "I don't think monsters are scared of Nickelback." "You'd be surprised.
~ Eden Robinson
This one's pretty good too," Crashpad said, holding up a boxed set. "These brothers hunt monsters and they drive around the country in this Impala and the tall one has demon blood but he—
~ Eden Robinson
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