Quotes About Monsters

E' una storia di bambini napoletani e di aviatori inglesi, dissi una storia gentile. V'è una certa gentilezza anche nella guerra. Ciò che la guerra ha di più orrendo disse Ilse è proprio quel che ha di gentile. Je n'aime pas voir sourire les monstres.

I just wasn't ready for his stories. They'd breed with the others I'd heard and hatch new monsters, because there was no such thing as separation here, not once you'd started listening. Never listen.

Gah! It's never going to be safe. There will always be another monster. How am I supposed to grow up to be a bad ass... if you don't let me be brave?

That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts.

This is not a nice vampire, Claire. It feeds people to its pets." "Well, you know how monsters are." Grinning.

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

The truth is that monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. That our better angels sometimes — often! — win instead, in spite of all odds, is another truth of The Shining. And thank God it is.

Losing maturity in one's fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that's not always a bad thing.

Dreams aren't real? I say they walk among us, whispering in our ears all their sweet promises and threats, carried in our heads, mind-words, maggots eating at our dead souls. Dreams, memes, gods and monsters, creatures of the id. If they aren't real then what the hell am I?

In our adventures, we have only seen our monsters more clearly and described his scales and fangs in new ways - ways that reveal a cancer cell to be. like Grendel, a distorted version of ourselves." -1989 Nobel Prize Speech, Cited in Siddhartha Mukherjee's Emperor of All Maladies

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.

In politics and in war, monsters are defined by which side of a fight a man claims. He is still a man to those who share his beliefs, perhaps even a hero. To those that oppose his philosophy, he is a beast, a creature, one of a thousand unspeakable demons clashing over an ideal.

But the boy knew that monsters didn't die as easily as hope.

It was something from the earth or the sky or the sea, or from a dream or the pages of a book I wasn't yet old enough to read, about monsters I wasn't brave enough to face. Soon it was an immense noise that rattled everything in my body. It was the sound of being chased in a nightmare, or the blind and violent fury of a bad parent, a tantrum that deafened the ears of the living and slithered across the bones of the dead.

We are all monsters Hannah said. Because we are letting it happen. She said it not as if she believed it but as she were to repeat something she had heard before.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

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.

We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man - that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

La hora de la venganza ha sonado! ¡Vamos a humillar el orgullo de esos cobardes asesinos! Se engañarían los bárbaros si en su desesperación imploran nuestra clemencia. Es preciso degollarlos a todos. Purguemos a la sociedad de esos monstruos. Muerte, muerte sin piedad". También: "Derramad a torrentes la inhumana sangre para que esta raza maldita de Dios y de los hombres no tenga sucesión".

Religion is not just about flying mountains, talking trees and biological monsters but also about agents whose mental states matter a lot, about connections with predation and death, about links with morality and misfortune.

Nietzsche: "Los que luchan contra monstruos deben cuidarse de no acabar convertidos en uno de ellos".

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Los que luchan contra monstruos deben cuidarse de no acabar convertidos en uno de ellos".