MONSTERS QUOTES II

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


When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you are the reason it has become so mangled.

CAITLYN SIEHL

"Start Here"


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


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


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

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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


I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human.

J. J. ABRAMS

interview, The Fresno Bee, December 16, 2015

Tags: J. J. Abrams


Monsters have the worst taste in women.

TERA LYNN CHILDS

Sweet Venom


A human being does not turn another human being over to the monsters. Not for any reason.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures

Tags: Laurell K. Hamilton


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

Tags: Laurell K. Hamilton


They begot giants and monsters ... they begot, and, behold, all the earth was corrupted.

MANI

The Book of Giants


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


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

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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


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


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

Tags: Carlos Ruiz Zafon


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


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


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"

Tags: Charles Baudelaire


When is a monster not a monster?
Oh, when you love it.
Oh, when you used to sing it to sleep.

CAITLYN SIEHL

"Start Here"