Monsters Quotes

“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”
― Colson Whitehead, Zone One

“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.”
― Emm Cole, The Short Life of Sparrows

“The problem with people who say monsters don't really exist is that they're almost never saying it to the monsters." —Alice Healy”
― Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“This was how mortals found fame, I thought. Through practice and diligence, tending their skills like gardens until they glowed beneath the sun. But gods are born of ichor and nectar, their excellences already bursting from their fingertips. So they find their fame by proving what they can mar: destroying cities, starting wars, breeding plagues and monsters. All that smoke and savor rising so delicately from our altars. It leaves only ash behind.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“She is so lovely she could kill you without you even noticing it. A monster girl who knows when to kiss and when to kill.”
― Cameron Jace, Snow White Sorrow

“Monsters are easy, Miss Rook. They're monsters. But a monster in a suit? That's basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.”
― William Ritter, Jackaby

“I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words”
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

“Remember that I’m still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won’t let you out.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“ Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit.
And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.”
― Andrew Sullivan

“CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!”
― Jeff Smith, Bone, Vol. 5: Rock Jaw Master of the Eastern Border

“I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.”
― Robert Fanney, The War of Mists

“As a breath on glass, -
As witch-fires that burn,
The gods and monsters pass,
Are dust, and return.
(“The Face of the Skies”)”
― George Sterling, The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."

What monsters may they be?"

Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...

There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?”
― Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower

“There are two types of monsters in this universe:
Fairy tale monsters that will never hurt you.
And human monsters living around you who will never hesitate to harm you.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.”
― Silje Akselberg Iversen

“-Dream up something wild and improbable. Something beautiful and full of monsters.

-Beautiful and full of monsters?

-All the best stories are.”
― Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer

“Even monsters must dream of fears and wants, and the sadness in his voice drew me closer.”
― Marie Lu, The Kingdom of Back

“You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night / Minla's Flowers

“No one's the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“The Nephilim - the bogeyman for monsters, and all those who could be monsters.”
― Cassandra Clare, Saving Raphael Santiago

“Monsters are most dangerous when they're afraid”
― Victoria Aveyard, King's Cage

“I don't want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.”
― Georges Bataille

“Monsters have the worst taste in women.”
― Tera Lynn Childs, Sweet Venom

“When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky

“Not all the monsters have fangs.”
― J.A. London, Darkness Before Dawn

“Séverin Montagnet-Alarie knew there was only one difference between monsters and gods. Both inspired fear. Only one inspired worship.”
― Roshani Chokshi, The Silvered Serpents

“Matthias knew monsters, and one look at Kaz Brekker had told him this was a creature who had spent too long in the dark- he'd brought something back with him when he crawled in to the light.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Hope was the beast that could never be slain, the light that blazed in every harrowing dark.”
― Hafsah Faizal, We Free the Stars