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Quotes About Monsters

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.
~ David Gemmell
It is as easy for the imagination to form monsters and to join incongruous shapes and appearances as it is to conceive the most natural and familiar objects.
~ David Hume
Most monsters take and trample. Dracula alone seduces, courting before he kills.
~ David J. Skal
In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.
~ Lana Del Rey
Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
~ Patricia Briggs
Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.
~ Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Monsters don't get happy endings.
~ Paula Stokes, Ferocious
There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.
~ Shannon L. Alder
A world in which there are monsters, and ghosts, and things that want to steal your heart is a world in which there are angels, and dreams and a world in which there is hope.
~ Neil Gaiman
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
~ Glen Duncan, Talulla Rising
I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.
~ Frank Spotnitz
You make them sound human.""Aren't they? A lot of monsters are human."She couldn't argue with that.
~ Jeyn Roberts, Dark Inside
The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become
~ Anonymous
Snoring keeps the monsters away.
~ Judy Blume, Fudge-a-Mania
There are a lot of movies with vampires and monsters and super-great effects, but if there's no humor or human relations, I don't think it's ever worth seeing.
~ Harald Zwart
I'm in a secret underground hideout of a group of monster hunters, filled with magical totems, brass monkeys that move and enough firepower to take over a small country.
~ Bill Blais, No Good Deed
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Well," said Miss Goering, "perhaps my maneuvers do seem a little strange, but I have thought for a long time now that often, so very often, heroes who believe themselves to be monsters because they are so far removed from other men turn around much later and see really monstrous acts being committed in the name of something mediocre.
~ Jane Bowles
Benoit Mandelbrot can be considered the Euclid of fractal geometry. He has collected the observations of mathematicians concerned with monsters, or objects not definable by euclidean geometry. By combining the work of these mathematicians with his own insight, he has created a geometry of nature that thrives on asymmetry and roughness. Mandelbrot has said that mountains are not cones, and clouds are not spheres.
~ Edgar E. Peters
A little Indian guy being sneered at by monsters of English privilege would normally have unleashed the full weight of Anne's loyalty to underdogs, but this time it was wiped out by Vijay's enormous desire to be a monster of English privilege himself.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.
~ Xavier Dolan
I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!
~ Kyle Chandler
NI love watching science fiction because I feel like when it's done well, it's not just monsters, but philosophy. Really good science fiction like, '2001,' for example, or the first 'Matrix.' But it takes someone who's got a brain and thinks in order to do really good science fiction.
~ Alan Arkin