quotations about monsters
Surely, cripples and hunchbacks, which I use as examples of monsters, are not frightening. I would maintain that they are. They may not be frightening to everyone, but in some way they summon up something that is frightening and to that extent, they are socially avoided. Thus, while they might not be truly monstrous in the sense of the monsters of science fiction movies, they are monstrous in the way in which they function.
ROBERT ELLIOTT ALLINSON
Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation
Technology took away the monster. The firebombing of Dresden once would have been the result of summoning a Hell Demon. By replacing the monster with a squadron of bombers and incendiery bombs, man had no further need for such a creature and the priests, the believers, who controlled them. No new generation of summoners replaced them and as summoning was entirely an oral tradition, no colossal Hell Beast will ever be summoned again. But then no one needs to when a warhead of destructive force beyond imagining can be more precise and controllable.
ROBERT HOOD & ROBIN PEN
Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters
When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you are the reason it has become so mangled.
CAITLYN SIEHL
"Start Here"
Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein
They begot giants and monsters ... they begot, and, behold, all the earth was corrupted.
MANI
The Book of Giants
Laughing like crazy
the child goes back to the city
gives birth to monsters
creates earthquakes
hairy women run naked
old folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke.
NICANOR PARRA
Emergency Poems
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
SUE GRAFTON
I is for Innocent
When the monsters are better friends to you than the people is that a sign that the monsters aren't bad guys or that you've become one of the monsters?
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Ardeur: 14 Writers on the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Series
Monsters have the worst taste in women.
TERA LYNN CHILDS
Sweet Venom
Some people are monsters, they're evil through and through; you tell yourself that so you can make sense of the world. It's like believing in a religion, a god and a devil, all good on one side, all bad on the other. But that's not how it is. Instead, you've got people who are capable of doing things that you can't even bear to think about; for bloody certain you can't ever forgive them. But they can still feel guilt and shame, they can still fall in love, try and do the right thing, appreciate what the right thing is--and then they cheerfully go and do the next unbelievably bad thing, and it all goes round again.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil
A human being does not turn another human being over to the monsters. Not for any reason.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Guilty Pleasures
The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Monsters have been usurped by man's own terror, by man's own mad destruction.
ROBERT HOOD & ROBIN PEN
Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters
I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human.
J. J. ABRAMS
interview, The Fresno Bee, December 16, 2015
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
"Miss Scalpel"
Monsters are natural forces, yes, but they came into existence with the express purpose of interacting with mankind. They are Gaia manifestations intended to remind humanity that it is but a small part of this complex Earth ... monsters were created to force man to know his place.
ROBERT HOOD & ROBIN PEN
Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he's a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Be careful in the company of monsters that you don't become one.
CINDY GERARD
Take No Prisoners
Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.
HOLLY BLACK
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters.
SEANAN MCGUIRE
Discount Armageddon