Monsters Quotes

The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

~ Laini Taylor

The monsters in our valley were destroyed that day. Only a very few survived. But that was all right, because we didn't need monsters anymore. We had become them.

~ K.a. Applegate

People think it's the monsters who do bad things, but it's not. It's people like us. All the monsters ever do is live in storybooks. Or in closets. It's the humans who destroy things. Life isn't black and white, James. It's all fucking gray.

~ Saffron A. Kent

Every monster could be saved.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Its easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.

~ Chuck Klosterman

I am a monster because I have too much of something.

~ Megan Shepherd

Are you a monster if you kill monsters, especially if those monsters are inside your head?

~ Deonté Jack

We often live next to monsters unawares.

~ Christopher Buehlman

Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.

~ James O'barr

I have learned it’s best to face down the trouble. Otherwise it will grow into a monster. We don’t have time for monsters.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

The sky grows dark over the city as Janey tells me her story. Teh beast was supposed to help their community. Something that would look good in a brochure, I suppose. But instead, it cut loose, took out in to the Williamsburg night. Janey and the kids went after it , and when they finally caught up what does it do? The thing ate a hipster.

~ Daniel José Older

Nyx had killed a lot of people. She'd let even more die through neglect. Rhys was just one more. I'm the same person, aren't I? she thought. She had burned herself up, only to come out the other side exactly the same.Taite's signal would get out, Nyx knew. It would be soon enough to save *her*. But it would not be soon enough for Rhys. Nyx hardened her jaw. Her hands and feet were still tied. They'd stripped her of her most obvious weapons. She could just wait this out.She saw Rhys register that. But there was no shock. Just resignation. He knew her for what she was. Butcher. Monster.The same old monster.

~ Kameron Hurley

Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.

~ Victor Lavalle

Nature had been fucked with. And Mother was pissed.”... Mother Nature was funny that way. Complex. Unpredictable.And unforgiving as hell if you fucked around with her.

~ Chuck Grossartm

Not all monsters are filled with darkness.' She wanted him to understand this so badly that her voice trembled.He didn't even hesitate. 'This one is.'She allowed herself a moment to admire Tommy, the way he stood so resolute, like a knight charging after the monster. He just didn't get that this fight wasn't his to wage.'Exactly so,' she finally said.Of course Tommy would think she talking to him. He exhaled as though relieved and the start of a smile eased the tension around his lips. By the time he realized that she'd spoken the words to someone over his shoulder, it was already too late.

~ Carrie Ryan

You're off the edge of the map, mate. Here there be monsters.

~ Hector Barbossa

He was colossal (apparently they felt behemoth was easier to spell).

~ Emily Devenport

But then, maybe “I don’t believe in you” is the cruelest way to kill a monster.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

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.

~ Kelley Armstrong

I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

~ Georges Bataille

She hated seeing monsters smile. Monsters should growl and snarl and be done with the pretenses.

~ Faith Mckay

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.

~ David D. Gilmore

Only monsters could slay monsters.

~ Imraan Coovadia

Couldn’t we camp down by the lakes?” Nynaeve asked, patting her face with her kerchief. “It must be cooler down by the water.”“Light,” Mat said, “I’d just like to stick my head in one of them. I might never take it out.”Just then something roiled the waters of the nearest lake, the dark water phosphorescing as a huge body rolled beneath the surface. Length on man-thick length sent ripples spreading, rolling on and on until at last a tail rose, waving a point like a wasp’s stinger for an instant in the twilight, at least five spans into the air. All along that length fat tentacles writhed like monstrous worms, as many as a centipede’s legs. It slid slowly beneath the surface and was gone, only the fading ripples to say it had ever been.Rand closed his mouth and exchanged a look with Perrin. Perrin’s yellow eyes were as disbelieving as he knew his own must be. Nothing that big could live in a lake that size. Those couldn’t have been hands on those tentacles. They couldn’t have been.“On second thought,” Mat said faintly, “I like it right here just fine.

~ Robert Jordan

I’m not sure we’re quite the monsters you want us to be.

~ Gavin G. Smith

The more monsterous humanity gets, the more nicer monsters become

~ Anonymous

The real monsters are born, not made. They are the ones who watch behind friendly faces. The ones who come for the innocent trying to steal everything they have, be it their most treasured possessions, their honour or their lives. Not because they must, not because their very existence relies on it but simply because there is a thrill in it for them. To watch a man pierced by wrath and greed die a lonely death, to watch a woman pierced by lust and anger whimper away in fear. It thrills them to watch man burn and bleed. Real monsters love to turn the sound of beautiful life into many a terrified scream.

~ Narayan Liu

Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another.

~ Paul Cornell

The world is chock-full of monsters.

~ Rafael Yglesias

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

~ Melinda Gebbie

I welcome monsters into my bedand set a place for them at breakfast,leave sugar out for their coffeegoddamnI’ve always been so good at loving monsters

~ Fortesa Latifi

Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name.

~ Terry Pratchett

It was possible, I saw now, to be a grotesque, to be huge and free, to wander the streets in utter freedom despite your atrocity, as long as you did it when everybody else was sealed inside their little lit boxes.Now it made sense – why monsters came out at night.

~ Joshua Gaylord

Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

~ Hilary Mantel

God didn't create monsters. Monsters created themselves.

~ Karina Halle

If they want a monster so badly they ought to be provided by one.

~ Margaret Atwood

He had found his monsters, and now was the time to leave them behind.

~ Tim Lebbon

On old maps, cartographers would draw strange beasts around the margins and write phrases such as Here be dragons. That's where monsters exist: in the unmapped spaces, in the places where we haven't filled in all the gaps...

~ Kelly Link

The reason Armand Gamache could go there was because it wasn't totally foreign to him. He knew it because he’d seen his own burned terrain, he’d walked off the familiar and comfortable path inside his own head and heart and seen what festered in the dark. And one day Jean Guy Beauvoir would look at his own monsters, and then be able to recognize others. And maybe this was the day and this was the case. He hoped so.

~ Louise Penny

People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz