Quotes about monster
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation I am alone.
Nikita Gill -
The monsters were neverunder my bed.Because the monsterswere inside my head.I fear no monsters,for no monsters I see.Because all this timethe monster has been me.
Ogden Nash -
Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
Neil Gaiman - The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.
Ekaterina Sedia - Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness
Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.
Philippa Dowding - Everton Miles Is Stranger Than Me: The Night Flyer's Handbook
You -have- to love your monster.
Rafael Yglesias - The Wisdom of Perversity
Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.
John Steinbeck - East of Eden
What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.
Rin Chupeco - The Girl from the Well
It is not in my nature to be interested in the living.But there are many things, I have found, that defy nature.
M.F. Moonzajer -
Religion can only do two things for mankind turn them into monster or stupid.
Anthony Ryan - Queen of Fire
I cannot believe the path to victory lies in staining our souls so black we become indistinguishable from those we fight.
Cameron Jace - Snow White Sorrow
I stand before her, meeting her eye to eye and nose to nose. My head takes a slight bow as I clench my fist. “I should have just killed you like any other bloodsucking vampire.”“So why didn’t you?” She tiptoes, clenching her first as well. I have to admit. She is a much better version of the Snow White you see in a Disney movie. She’s kind of kickass. I like it, but I will never let her know.“Why do you care so much about me then? Ha?” She asks."I should have killed you before," I repeated while
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Last Night I Sang to the Monster
What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.
Stephen King - It
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
Unknown -
The poem is like a monster, against which the critic does battle. There is only one way to conquer the monster: you must eat it, bones, blood, skin, pelt, and gristle. And even then the monster is not dead, for it lives in you, is assimilated into you, and you are different and somewhat monstrous yourself for having eaten it.
Stephen King - Cujo
The monster nevers dies.
Caitlyn Siehl - Literary Sexts: A Collection of Short & Sexy Love Poems
When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.
Alberto Moravia - The Woman of Rome
And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.
Alistair Begg -
At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.
Victoria Schwab - This Savage Song
I am Sunai,” he said. “I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.
Voltaire -
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.
Andrzej Sapkowski - The Last Wish
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.
Donald G. Firesmith - Demons on the Dalton
He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.
Zoe Cruz - Beastia
At this point, I realize: He is making a monster of me.
Zoe Cruz - Beastia
I’ll rid the world of each one of you,” he whispered. “Every single one…
Kendare Blake - Anna Dressed in Blood
The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.
Stephen King - It
Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Isaac Asimov - Foundation and Empire
I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.
Dennis Sharpe - First Boy
This guy sounds like all the bad guys from the last ten years of murder movies all rolled into one. Like he might be the worst of those books you have there. If he was real, and really like that, then I should arrest him, right?” Matthew asked, hoping he could show the boy that he would protect him, and he could tell him the truth now.“No, Deputy. Because he is real, and he is really like that, and you should run.
Akshay Vasu -
She asked him, to name the monster that he is most afraid of always and looked into his eyes in silence. 'I see him every time whenever I stare into your eyes.' he replied.
Christina Dodd - Because I'm Watching
She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.
J.D. Lakey - Black Bead
The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.
Molly Harper - Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
You want to stab me again, don't you?"He didn't look at all ashamed. "Think of it as testing the limits of your new abilities."I groaned. "I've created a monster.""I don't think someone who recently crawled from the grave should be throwing around labels like 'monster,'" he said, making sarcastic little air-quotes fingers. "It wasn't a grave," I sniffed. "It was a comfy four-poster.
Criss Jami -
They say the crazies come out at night. I say the crazies come out during election year: Elections have the power to turn once seemingly normal people into certified loonies.
Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go
War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
Dylan Moran -
Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.
Andrew Ashling - The Invisible Chains - Part 1: Bonds of Hate
Deal with all this, live with myself, you mean? I honestly don't know. I stand often enough at the abyss of my soul, asking that same question, looking down into the dark crevices where the black monsters dwell on the bottom. They gaze up at me, and I look them in the eyes. “This also you are,” they say, and I almost fall into the void.”“And then?”Anaxantis shrugged.“And then? I turn around and go do what needs to be done. What else is there?
Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
Victoria Schwab - This Savage Song
Listen to me,” he said, pulling off his coat. “You need to stay awake.”She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. “What’s so funny?”“You’re a really shitty monster, August Flynn.
Rebecca McNutt - or The Usurer
When did the very first case of racism even occur? When did such blind hatred devour the souls of men and make them turn on their own brothers and sisters? What ever taught them that it was normal to be such monsters?
Joseph Campbell - The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughlyknown; we have only to follow the thread of the heropath. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, weshall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.
Thomas Bernhard - Concrete
Parents have a child, and in doing so they bring into the world a monster that kills everything it comes in contact with.
Andrzej Sapkowski - Krew elfów
You can't stop a soldier from being frightened but you can give him motivation to help him overcome that fear. I have no such motivation. I can't have. I'm a witcher: an artificially created mutant. I kill monsters for money. I defend children when their parents pay me to. If Nilfgaardian parents pay me, I'll defend Nilfgaardian children. And even if the world lies in ruin - which does not seem likely to me - I'll carry on killing monsters in the ruins of this world until some monster kills me.
Hideaki Sorachi -
You want to know who the strongest man in the Kabuki District is? You must be new in town. You won't last long with that attitude. Forget it. This town is on a whole different level. You got thugs, brawlers, vigilantes and rogue warriors from all over Edo here. It's like a haven for hooligans. This is for your own good. Have a drink and go back to the countryside. What's that? You want me to tell you about the top dogs before you go? You really like this stuff. First, there are four monsters on
Crystal Woods - Write like no one is reading 2
Searching through Monster.com while on the clock feels like being on Tinder while still married.
Colin Bord - Sacred Waters
Allegorical stories of saints battling with giants, monsters and demons may be interpreted as symbolizing the Christian's fight against paganism. At Bwlch Rhiwfelen (Denbigh) St Collen fought and killed a cannibal giantess, afterwards washing away the blood-stains in a well later known as Ffynnon Gollen. In Ireland, the tales of saints slaying giant serpents may have the same meaning; alternatively they (or some of them) may refer to early sightings of genuine water monsters. St Barry banished a
Ross Turner - Reaper
Just because he was not a monster did not mean he wouldn’t be treated as one.
Tahir Shah - House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City
Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.
Akshay Vasu -
Rage and revenge sat in his heart fanned by time and silence. Before he could realise anything, he was engulfed in flames. Everything he touched, lost its existence in his life. Turning him into a monster, who destroys everything in a daylight but cries in dark and silence.
James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Remember that pornography is dangerous. It can warp the mind and destroy sexual intimacy in marriage. Stay away from it. A monster is crouched behind that door.
Hayley Williams -
Well you found us strength and solutions but I liked the tensionAnd not always knowing the answers when you're gonna lose it, you're gonna lose it.
Lady Gaga -
The Monster Ball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice.
Static-X -
I see your bleeding dark side. I feel your angry heart. Reveals forbidden places. More monster yet alive...
Anthony Liccione -
Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.
Kristin Cashore - Graceling
A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?
Erin Hanson -
My mother always told meNo monster lived beneath my bed,But she had failed to warn meIt laid on top of it instead.
Holly Black - The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Better to leave him with the memory of their being a pair of monsters, wrapped in each other's arms.
James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Now I need to speak directly and with compassion to those who have already pushed open the door of premarital sex. The monster has been released. You've lost your virginity and may have been sexually active for years. Perhaps you've been carrying a load of guilt for doing what you knew was wrong.
Thomm Quackenbush - #2)
As a man, I was a failure. A pathetic teacher lusting after Catholic school girls in short skirts. As a monster, I'm superb. It's comforting to know my place in the world.
Jack Keely - The Whistlebrass Horror
I don't believe in monsters.""Well, Red, I think you might want to start." Pike turned and looked him in the eye. "What do you think those green things were? And what do you think is trying to smash its way in here? A pony?
Taylor Stevens - The Doll
The pain on the inside is what keeps you human,' she said. 'Never forget that.
Patti Roberts - The Angels Are Here
Whatever. I know that when a monster is chasing you. You take your high-heeled shoes off. I’ve learned that … And you never, ever dangle your legs over the edge of the bed at night … And clowns, well, you get rid of them right away; they are just way too freaky. If the monster doesn’t get you, the clown sure will.
Bette Davis -
In this business, until you're known as a monster you're not a star.
Francesca Zappia - Eliza and Her Monsters
Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten.
Shannon A. Thompson - July Lightning
Every monster could be saved.
Crina Popescu -
I'm a little monster. Cuddling is my special attack. #cuddlemonster
Crina Popescu -
I'm a little monster. Cuddling is my specail attack. #cuddlemonster
Seabury Quinn - The Mummy Walks Among Us
Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!'("The Man In Crescent Terrace")
Clive Cussler -
If ever a car was created by designers with dreams of grandeur, it had to be the 1958 Buick Limited: the heftiest, highest-priced and most opulent monster ever to hit the street in the '50s.
Richard Dawkins -
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Boris Karloff -
The monster was the best friend I ever had.
Richard Wright -
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Honore de Balzac -
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Alfred Jarry -
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Douglas Preston - The Monster of Florence
We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.
Rick Yancey -
The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.
Jennifer Finney Boylan - Falcon Quinn and the Black Mirror
Monster a person though monster not human.Monster like music. Like Beatles! Like Schumann!World full of stupid. World full of noise.Monster feel ANGRY. No birthday. No joys.World full of JUNK monster not comprehend.What is a childhood? What is a friend?Monster and human both want the same.Want conversation. Want love. WANT NO PAIN.If monster speak heart: monster life only worsen.Monster not human: BUT MONSTER A PERSON!
Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
I always thought they were fabulous monsters!" said the Unicorn. "Is it alive?""It can talk," said Haigha, solemnly.The Unicorn looked dreamily at Alice, and said, "Talk, child."Alice could not help her lips curling up into a smile as she began: "Do you know, I always thought Unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!""Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?
Richelle E. Goodrich - Slaying Dragons
Silly little monster” all would say.They’d scratch its head and turn awayuntil it snatched their tiny noses.They couldn’t even smell the roses!Ever after, every childdreaded monsters, fierce or mild.
Victoria Aveyard - Glass Sword
No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.
Edith Pattou - East
It was not a monster that lay sleeping on the white sheets. Nor a faceless horror. Nor even the white bear. It was a man.His hair was golden, glowing bright as a bonfire in the light of the candle. And his features were fair, I suppose, but he was a stranger and that somehow was the greatest shock of all- that I had been lying all these months beside a complete stranger.
Jodi Picoult - Handle with Care
Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.
Munia Khan -
I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again.
69rascal -
The horrible monsters in this world are the ones that wear human face
Neil Davies - The Village Witch
Claws grabbed his head from behind, curving round his face, serrated talons gouging into his eyes
Rick Yancey - The Monstrumologist
...there are more terrifying monstrosities in the world than Anthropophagi. Monstrosities who, with a smile and a comforting pat on the head, are willing to sacrifice a child upon the altar of their own overweening ambition and pride.
Ilsa J. Bick - Monsters
No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.
Lani Brown -
I never said you had to like it. You have to accept it. No regret." - Clare Harding From the current book in writing BUMPKIN by Lani Brown.
Stephen King - Six Scary Stories
Never tell to much. The monster is always scarier when it is still under the child's bed.
Richard Hofstadter - The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
They thought man was a creature of rapacious self-interest, and yet they wanted him to be free- free, in essence, to contend, to engage in an umpired strife, to use property to get property.
Jaimie Roberts - Siren
Why can’t she see it? Why can’t she see the hidden monster which lives inside of him? He’s standing there, his back still away from my mum, but he’s showing me that evil. He’s showing me the monster that is just itching to get out. I know what he would do without Mum being there, so I’m so glad that she is, but what I can’t understand is how blind she and my sister are to him. It’s almost as if he can walk on water as far as they’re concerned.
A Girl From Mars -
Evil isn't born...Neither is purity. Because even as newborns, there is something wrong inside of all of us bound to spring up and activate itself within us.
Brent Weeks - The Broken Eye
He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster.
Red Tash - This Brilliant Darkness
He was six years old this time, and ancient.
Matthew Fitzpatrick - Monsters & Men: An Anthology
With a ring around the rosaryAnd a pocket full of crossesAshes to ashesThey'll all fall down
Red Tash - This Brilliant Darkness
There was nothing but power, and those who hadn't yet found the tap. (Greachin)
Rick Yancey - The Curse of the Wendigo
Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.
Jennifer Brown - Hate List
I sat back and looked at it. It was ugly, dark, uncontrolled. Like a monster's face. Or maybe what I saw there was my own face. I couldn't quite tell. Was the face the image of something evil or the image of myself?"Both," Bea muttered, as if I'd spoken my question out loud. "Of course, it's both. But it shouldn't be. Goodness, no.