645 Quotes About Monsters
- Author Victor LaValle
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Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.
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- Author Helen Oyeyemi
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But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.
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- Author Georges Bataille
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I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.
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- Author Kelley Armstrong
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Demons are a very human creation. You look for ways to explain evil, and instead of seeing it in yourselves, you offload the responsibility onto monsters. The monstrous exists in the mirror, not in the sulfurous depths of some fantasy world.
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- Author Drew Hayes
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Oh sure, everyone else charges monsters and it's brave, I do it once and I'm a madman.
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- Author Faith McKay
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She hated seeing monsters smile. Monsters should growl and snarl and be done with the pretenses.
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- Author David D. Gilmore
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The power of monsters is their ability to fuse opposites, to merge contraries, to subvert rules, to overthrow cognitive barriers, moral distinction, and ontological categories. Monsters overcome the barrier of time itself. Uniting past and present, demonic and divine, guilt and conscience, predator and prey, parent and child, self and alien, our monsters are our innermost selves.
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- Author Clive Barker
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A monster lies in wait in me,A stew of wounds and misery,But fiercer still in life and limb,The me that lies in wait in him.
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- Author Gavin G. Smith
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I’m not sure we’re quite the monsters you want us to be.
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