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Quotes About Monsters

There shall be confusion also in many places, and the fire shall be oft sent out again, and the wild beasts shall change their places, and menstruate women shall bring forth monsters:
~ Compton Gage
I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.
~ Jim Butcher, Storm Front
I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.
~ Miranda Raison
It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.
~ Niccolo Ammaniti
He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love.
~ Leonard Cohen
For 'Monster Hunter,' we needed insane landscapes.
~ Paul W. S. Anderson
I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.
~ Dean Devlin
The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
~ Victor LaValle
Among the many reasons for regarding the fabled American exceptionalism with some skepticism is that the doctrine appears to be close to a historical universal, including the worst monsters: Hitler, Stalin, the conquistadors; it is hard to find an exception. Aggression and terror are almost invariably portrayed as self-defense and dedication to inspiring visions.
~ Noam Chomsky
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
There are always monsters," the old man replied. "Just as there are always men who will join them, and men who will fight them.
~ Nora Roberts
History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Typhoid Mary or Ted Bundy or Sharon Tate. History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La historia no es más que una sucesión de monstruos o de víctimas. O de testigos.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.
~ Clive Barker
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin
~ Clive Barker
Midian is where the monsters go.
~ Clive Barker
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
To be able to fly ? To be smoke , or a wolf ;to know the night , and live in it forever ? That's not so bad . You call us monsters . But when you dream it's of flying , and changing , and living without death .
~ Clive Barker
Evil is never abstract. It is always concrete, always particular and always vested in individuals. To deny monsters as individuals the right to speak, to actually state their case, is perverse - because I want to hear the Devil speak. I like the idea that a point of view can be made by the dark side.
~ Clive Barker
She knew he was telling the truth, the kind of unsavoury truth that only monsters were at liberty to tell. He had no need to flatter or cajole; he had no philosophy to debate, or sermon to deliver. His awful nakedness was a kind of sophistication. Past the lies of faith, and into purer realms.
~ Clive Barker
God's an astronaut Oz is over the rainbow and Median is where the monsters live.
~ Clive Barker-Cabal
Trees that are only trees by daylight are many and various other things at night. They are lurking, impossible monsters of the animal world or crouching human ruffians, of ferocious aspect and intent, depending upon their shape, size, color, distance from the beholder, and general state of well-being or decay. One's own well-being has some bearing on the matter. Strong nerves are needed to walk among them in the darkness.
~ Vincent Starrett
Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta--- horresco referens---immensis orbibus angues incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt; pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta iubaeque sanguineae superant undas; pars cetera pontum pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
~ Virgil