645 Quotes About Monsters

  • Author Maria Dahvana Headley
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    Listen,' someone whispers into my ear. 'Listen to me.'Am I dead?'Listen,' the voice whispers. 'In some countries, you kill a monster when it's born. Other places, you kill it only when it kills someone else. Other places, you let it go, out into the forest or the sea, and it lives there forever, calling for others of its kind. Listen to me, it cries. Maybe it's just alone.

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  • Author Elena Ferrante
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    Her nausea increased, the dialect had become unfamiliar, the way our wet throats bathed the words in the liquid of saliva was intolerable. A sense of repulsion had invested all the bodies in movement, their bone structure, the frenzy that shook them. How poorly made we are, she thought, how insufficient. The broad shoulders, the arms, the legs, the ears, noses, eyes, seemed to her attributes of monstrous beings who had fallen from some corner of the black sky.

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  • Author Charles Baudelaire
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    Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?

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  • Author StanisÅ‚aw Lem
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    ...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

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