645 Quotes About Monsters
- Author Kay Redfield Jamison
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But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.
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- Author Niccolò Ammaniti
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Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.
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- Author Shirley Marr
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Neil once told me you had to become a monster so that you didn't become the victim of one instead. I don't care what anyone says. I believe him.
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- Author Ellie Wriglesworth
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Women and monsters have a lot in common [...]. They are both outcasts; alienated, derided and feared by society. They are biological freaks with bodies that transgress and fluctuate, and they are both threats to male power.
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- Author Holly Black
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And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over that blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid.
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- Author Richard Siken
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Do we simply stare at what is horrible and forgive it?Here is the river, and here is the box, and here arethe monsters we put in the box to test our strengthagainst. Here is the cake, and here is the fork, and here'sthe desire to put it inside us, and then the questionbehind every question: What happens next?
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- Author Rob S. Rice
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Tis true, Dr. Buzzard, that a silver bullet must be of the largest and heaviest sort to travel with any amount o’ range or accuracy. But after yon hellhound took no notice o’ my challenge or my first discharge, I said what was fitting with lead buckshot well-washed with silver that I’ve got from the most particular little shop in Birmingham. It didn’t like it.
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- Author John King
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It proved what the Vicar said, that there really was a devil lurking in the shadows in the dark recesses of the human mind, a monster preying on the defenceless, the old and the young, small boys and old ladies, the raving lunatics turned onto the streets for some care in the community. It really was shocking, as though the world was going mad, people turning in on themselves and falling prey to wicked thoughts.
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- Author Primo Levi
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Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
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