Quotes About Monsters

Ah! Si pudiese llegar y echarme a las rodillas de doña Mencía —me digo a mí mismo—, si pudiera ponerme bajo la salvaguardia de mi respetable madre, fantasmas, monstruos que os habéis ensañado conmigo, ¿os atreveréis a violar ese asilo? Allí volveré a encontrar, junto con los sentimientos de la naturaleza, los principios saludables de los que me he apartado; ellos serán mi escudo frente a vosotros.

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.

La peur est accoucheuse de monstres.

But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.

Monsters are a boon to gods. Imagine all the prayers.

Islands were dangerous places. You met monsters as often as friends.

Prior to then it was believed that black holes were just cosmic cookie monsters, swallowing everything that came within their gravitational clutches.

Don't you know?" she had said. "The gods love their monsters.

I loved his certainty, his world that was an easy place of right action divided sharply from wrong, of mistake and consequence, of monsters defeated. It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me" - circe, chapter XIX

I loved his certainty, his world that was an easy place of right action divided sharply from wrong, of mistake and consequence, of monsters defeated. It was no world I knew, but I would live in it as long as he would let me.

Are we only hated because we're free -- Free and prosperous and good? Or does the light we see cast shadows we don't -- Where monsters...can plant the seeds of hate?

I'm a monster. You're a monster. We're all fucking inhuman monsters, and we don't see a damned thing wrong with it.

So we're the monster police, too?" I said to Tom. "Correct," he replied. "The only real question is, who are the monsters?" "They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It's an actual trope." "I know," Tom said. "What does it say about us that it's relevant every single time they ask it?

It's okay if we turned entire cities full of people into nuclear ash, but the idea of monsters having a nibble afterward was just too much.

The only real question is, who are the monsters?" "They ask that question in every monster movie, you know. It's an actual trope." "I know," Tom said. "What does it say about us that it's relevant every single time they ask it?

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.

I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies; some are born with no arms, no legs, some with three arms, some with tails or mouths in odd places. They are accidents and no one's fault, as used to be thought. Once they were considered the visible punishments for concealed sins.

And just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

There is one thing I don't think any one has ever set down although it is true—to a monster, everyone else is a monster.

I BELIEVE THERE ARE MONSTERS BORN in the world to human parents. Some you can see, misshapen and horrible, with huge heads or tiny bodies; some are born with no arms, no legs, some with three arms, some with tails or mouths in odd places.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

The dream of reason produces monsters

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters