100+ Monsters Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1644, Knopf Books for Young Readers

topic: Mind, Monsters, Brisingr

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Monsters, Invisible, Invisible Monsters

Be careful in the company of monsters that you don't become one.

- Cindy Gerard

source: Cindy Gerard (2008). “Take No Prisoners”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

topic: Monsters, Be Careful, Careful

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

- CJ Roberts

topic: Monsters, Born, Made

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

- Clarice Lispector

source: Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.15, New Directions Publishing

topic: Mean, Monsters, Persons

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

- Clive Barker

topic: Lying, Waiting, Monsters

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin

- Clive Barker

source: FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Sep 03, 2013

topic: Rainbow, Monsters, Horror, True God

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

- Colson Whitehead

source: "A Psychotronic Childhood" by Colson Whitehead, www.newyorker.com. June 4, 2012.

topic: Monsters, Pretending, Persons

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

- Colson Whitehead

source: Colson Whitehead (2011). “Zone One”, p.214, Random House

topic: People, Monsters

Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?

- Cornelia Funke

topic: Book, Monsters, Looks

Theres nothing to fear but fears themselves, such as monsters, rejection, food poisoning, redundancy, monsters, and oxford commas.

- Craig Benzine

topic: Oxford, Rejection, Monsters, Poisoning, Food Poisoning

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Funny, Zombie, Monsters

Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde is a metaphor for alcoholism. He drinks a potion, becomes a monster. I know exactly how he feels.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Monsters, Drs, Hyde, Mr Hyde

You seek up a big monster for him to fight your wars for you.

- Dave Matthews

topic: War, Fighting, Monsters

The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.

- David Bainbridge

topic: Brain, Monsters, World

That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

- David Levithan

topic: Hurt, Monsters, Pouring

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

- David Quammen

source: David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: People, Monsters, Lions

There is no word in the English language for the feeling someone gets when they suddenly realize they're standing next to an unholy monster impersonating a human. Monstralization, maybe?

- David Wong

topic: Feelings, Monsters, Next

Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?

- Dennis Lehane

topic: Men, Good Man, Monsters

The monsters in my head are scared of love...

- Diplo

source: Song: Revolution

topic: Monsters, Scared

Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.

- Donna J. Haraway

topic: Vision, Monsters, Illusion, Double Vision

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

- Douglas Preston

topic: Differences, Monsters, Degrees

This is what I do for fun - brainstorm about monsters!

- Drew Goddard

topic: Fun, Monsters

We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness, and preparedness, survival. In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters...

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Survival, Monsters, Fascination, Chatter

The predominance of mind is no more than a stage in the evolution of consciousness. We need to go on to the next stage now as a matter of urgency; otherwise, we will be destroyed by the mind, which has grown into a monster.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Mind, Monsters, Needs

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Soul, Monsters

Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Jealousy, Heart, Monsters

Every monster was a man first.

- Edward Albee

topic: Men, Monsters, Firsts

I would love to do a dramatic comedy. All of that, it all interests me. At some point I want to do my 'Monster,' like Charlize Theron, so I'm buckling up for that.

- Eliza Coupe

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Monsters, Want, Comedy

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

topic: Pay, Monsters, Deeds, Insincere

I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

- Elizabeth Meriwether

topic: Lying, Monsters, Cookies

Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard enough to kill you, but enough to keep you from reeling until you try to get away. Try, and you hunger for it grasping clutch, the way its tendrils prop you up, your need intensifying exponentially every minute you refuse to admit its being (p.469)

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Octopus, Trying, Monsters, Tentacles

Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.

- Ellen Hopkins

source: Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

topic: Funny Things, Monsters, Treats

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

- Ellen Hopkins

source: Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

topic: Monsters, Wanted

The monster likes to talk; he jumps into your head and opens your mouth, making it spout your deepest darkest deceptions. Making you say all the things you'd rather not say, at least not in mixed company." (Ellen Hopkins)

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Deception, Monsters, Mouths

I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.

- Emma Bunton

source: "Bye-bye Baby" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.

topic: Monsters, Littles, Range, Range Rover, Mess With Me

Theres monsters in all of us, but theres also vulnerability.

- Finn Wittrock

topic: Monsters, Vulnerability

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

- Francisco Goya

source: Francisco de Goya, Peter Russell (2016). “Delphi Complete Paintings of Francisco de Goya (Illustrated)”, p.90, Delphi Classics

topic: Mother, Art, Monsters, Fine Artists

The dream of reason produces monsters

- Francisco Goya

source: Francisco Goya, Janis A. Tomlinson, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Museo del Prado (2002). “Goya: images of women”, Natl Gallery of Art

topic: Dream, Monsters, Reason, Deserted, Desertion

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

- Francisco Goya

topic: Crazy, Sleep, Monsters

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

- Francisco Goya

source: Lucia P. Iannone, Francisco Goya (1981). “Goya: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. Arthur Ross, Yale University Art Gallery, September 16-November 15, 1981”

topic: Monsters, Impossible, Fantasy, Fine Artists, Abandoned Buildings

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

- Frank Peretti

source: Frank E. Peretti (2011). “The Oath”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Doors, Overcoming, Monsters

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

- Frank Spotnitz

source: Source: movieweb.com

topic: Humanity, Monsters, Behavior, Human Behavior

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.

- Franz Kafka

topic: Writing, Insanity, Monsters

I'm so powerful in stage that I seem to have created a monster. When I'm performing I'm an extrovert, yet inside I'm a completely different man.

- Freddie Mercury

topic: Powerful, Men, Monsters

We can bear up under everything, if we have only the certainty that the monster Hitler with his insatiable bloodletting and plundering will have committed soon his last shameful deed.

- Friedrich Kellner

topic: Monsters, Deeds, Lasts, Bloodletting

Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Philosophical, Fighting, Monsters

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Rose, Monsters, Swallowing

Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Evil, Monsters

Every golfer has a little monster in him. It's just that type of sport.

- Fuzzy Zoeller

topic: Sports, Golf, Monsters

I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to a vine! I couldn't go there! I'd go to the desert to find a dragon. I began to reset the spyglass, but then I stopped myself. A spider was worse than a dragon? No. My first monsters would be spiders, then.

- Gail Carson Levine

topic: Dragons, Monsters, Would Be, Reset

We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don't want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.

- Gene Weingarten

source: Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

topic: Believe, People, Monsters

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

- Geoffrey Canada

topic: Vacation, Monsters, Week

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

- Georg Baselitz

topic: Monsters, Want, Tradition

I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors.

- George A. Romero

topic: Real, Doors, Monsters

Zombies are the blue-collar monsters

- George A. Romero

topic: Blue, Zombie, Monsters

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

- George Eliot

topic: Women, Monsters, Literature

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.

- George Eliot

topic: Men, Mad, Monsters

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Hero, Winning, Monsters, Sansa Stark

If you establish an identity, you build a monster-and thats right, youve got to live with it. Of course, you can enjoy it, too.

- George Shearing

topic: Identity, Monsters, Enjoy

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

- Gilles Deleuze

source: Gilles Deleuze, FeÌl?ix Guattari (2004). “Anti-Oedipus”, p.122, A&C Black

topic: Monsters, Slumber, Reason, Vigilant, Insomniac

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

- Glenn Frey

topic: Monsters, Dresses, Reason, Maniacs

Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.

- Gordon R. Dickson

source: Gordon R. Dickson (1963). “No Room for Man”, New York : MacFadden-Bartell Corporation

topic: Our World, Numbers, Monsters, Present Time, Public Transportation

It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

- Gregory Maguire

topic: Monsters, World, Birth, Jack The Ripper

That fame monster's a fool, man. It really is.

- Gucci Mane

topic: Men, Monsters, Fool

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

topic: Sleep, Monsters, Doe

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: Monsters, Firsts, Wells

The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters.

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: Cities, People, Monsters

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: Dark, Monsters, Insects, Clockwork, Fetish

Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.

- Hank Azaria

topic: Work Out, Monsters, Godzilla

be careful of monsters with teeth

- Harlan Ellison

topic: Monsters, Teeth, Be Careful

Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

- Harold Ramis

topic: People, Monsters, Triumph, Spirit World

If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of ***** he would drop dead of fright.

- Harry J. Anslinger

topic: Marijuana, Monsters, Faces, Hideous

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

- Heather Brewer

source: Heather Brewer (2013). “Eighth Grade Bites #1: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.82, Penguin

topic: Friendly, Monsters, World, Friendly Faces

He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him.

- Heinrich Heine

topic: Dog, Monsters, Treasure

There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty and revenge, unless it be the New Testament, which arms its God with hell, and extends his outrages throughout all eternity!

- Helen H. Gardener

topic: Revenge, Book, Monsters

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived and has seldom been disappointed.

- Henry Mackenzie

source: Henry Mackenzie (1854). “The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie ...”, p.41

topic: Monsters, Mankind, Deceived

Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.

- Herman Melville

topic: Stars, Monsters, Gliding

It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.

- Hilary Mantel

topic: People, Trying, Monsters, Famine

It demeans you to cover rotten meat with honey. I know what I am. What would you want with a monster?" "Everything.

- Holly Black

topic: Monsters, Meat, Rotten

She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.

- Holly Black

source: Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.153, Hachette UK

topic: Monsters, Way, Feels

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

- Holly Black

topic: Believe, Monsters, Safe

Eventually, a collection ceases to be a personal indulgence and assumes its own identity. In fact, it becomes a thing in its own right - rather like Frankenstein's monster.

- Howard Hodgkin

topic: Identity, Monsters, Facts, Frankenstein's Monster

I sigh inside, so exhausted by these ugly questions, but when did a monster ever deserve its privacy?

- Isaac Marion

topic: Monsters, Ugly, Privacy

But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people

- Isabelle Huppert

topic: People, Trying, Monsters

I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

- J. J. Abrams

topic: Issues, Monsters, Fiction

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Real, Evil, Monsters, Agoraphobia

All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

- Jack Abramoff

topic: People, Cartoon, Monsters

'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

- Jackie Earle Haley

topic: Monsters, Aliens, Horror, All Time Favorite

She wanted to have him hold her and tell her all the demons were pretend, that there was no monster in her closet, that everything would be okay. But that was a lie. The demon was in her head, telling her she was too fat. She had to get the demon out. But she couldn't do it by herself.

- Jackie Morse Kessler

source: Jackie Morse Kessler (2010). “Hunger”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Lying, Monsters, Would Be

Monsters will always exist. There's one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.

- Jacqueline Novogratz

source: Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.149, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Angel, Important, Monsters

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the 'Godfather' films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

- Jacques Audiard

topic: Thinking, Roots, Monsters, Corleone

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

- James Berardinelli

topic: Memorable, Vampire, Monsters, Van Helsing, Underworld

Socialism is a monster, which will die.

- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

topic: Monsters, Socialism

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

- Jeannette Walls