Monsters Quotes

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  Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

  Stephen King

  Hate, Real, Winning

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Nov 26, 2013

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• We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

  Francesca Lia Block

  Believe, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Alive, Fabulous

  Lewis Carroll (2016). “Alice Through the Looking Glass: plus Free Audiobook”, p.58, Wizio Publishing

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• Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.

  Clive Barker

  Eye, Forever, Flesh

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

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul

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• Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

  Stephen King

  Criminal Mind, Sometimes, Humans

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• Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

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• Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Focus, May

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.156, Anchor

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil

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• Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Art, Government, Miracle

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1973.

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• The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

  Richard Wright

  Art, Halloween, Imagination

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• Oh, monsters are scared. That's why they're monsters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Scared, Said

  "The Ocean At the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

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• Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Darkness, Trying

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.17, Penguin

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• I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Life, Men, Identity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Battle

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• I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents.... The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or a malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Eggs, Eden

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  Yeardley Smith

  Building

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The real world is where the monsters are.

  Rick Riordan

  Life, Real, World

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.171, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ignorance, Womb

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “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

  Shadow, Towns, Kind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• Monsters are very real. But they're not just creatures. Monsters are everywhere. They're people. They're nightmares...They are the things that we harbor within ourselves. If you remember one thing, even above remembering me, remember that there is not a monster dreamt that hasn't walked once within the soul of a man.

  C. Robert Cargill

  Real, Men, People

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• It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Farewell, Pride, Men

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• You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.

  Matthew Broderick

  Fighting, Hands, Mind

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• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Miracle, World, Greater

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.295

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• It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

  Niccolo Ammaniti

  Men, Should

  Niccolò Ammaniti (2003). “I'm Not Scared”, p.33, Canongate Books

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