Monsters Quotes - Page 7

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

  Guillermo del Toro

  Firsts, Wells

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• Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Frankenstein's Monster, Form, Disgusting

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

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• Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings
  To his strong bones, strides o'er the groaning rocks:
  He withers all in silence, and his hand
  Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

  William Blake

  Strong, Winter, Rocks

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.5, Routledge

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• That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.

  Veronica Roth

  Men, People, Firsts

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• Now, now, you aren't afraid of monsters in the dark, are you?" I caught a flash of her eyes, winking wickedly at me. "No," I said, shivering. After all, I was one of them.

  Kiersten White

  Eye, Dark, Flash

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• I can see every monster as they come in.

  Truman Capote

  I Can

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• I don't think of myself as an evil monster and I hope I'm not.

  Chester Brown

  Thinking, Evil

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

  CJ Roberts

  Night, Thinking, Light

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• You’re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. You’re alone, so you think it’s a vast, magnificent panorama. You haven’t sounded the depths. You simply believe in the beauty of God’s creation. But I have spent all this time in the water, diving deep into the howling ocean of life, deeper than anyone. While you were admiring the surface, I saw the shipwrecks, the drowned bodies, the monsters of the deep

  Alfred de Musset

  Believe, Ocean, Thinking

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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• Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

  Simon Birch

  Race, Gazelles, Impatience

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• 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

  Way, Wanted, Feels

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

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• You were afraid of shooting people?" "No," I say. "I was afraid of my considerable capacity to kill." How many young men fear that there is a monster inside of them?

  Veronica Roth

  Men, People, Shooting

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• Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the
  choice is mine.
  I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.
  I am grace.
  I plunge in the knife.
  This is my sacrifice--
  I am the monster.

  Bree Despain

  Angel, Sacrifice, Fire

  Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.5, Egmont UK

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

  Donna J. Haraway

  Double Vision, Illusion, Produce

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• I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Hate, Waiting, Tails

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.

  Rachel Hartman

  Beautiful

  "Seraphina". Book by Rachel Hartman, 2012.

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• I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.

  Maria Dahvana Headley

  Writing, Playing Games, Skins

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is Monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Christian, Rain, Fall

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.81, Harvard University Press

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• The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

  Carl Jung

  Attitude, Intellectual, Degrees

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• I was just a kid selling monster stories to the kids in the projects, complete with a dramatic reading, making the werewolf sounds. My career was aborted early on because one of my main customers started to have nightmares and his mother came to my mother and my mother shut down my whole business.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Reading, Kids

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• The world is run by monsters and you have to deal with them. Some of them run countries, some of them run banks, some of them run news corporations.

  Ken Livingstone

  Running, Country, News

  "Preview: Ken Livingstone: 'The world is run by monsters'". Interview with Jemima Khan, www.newstatesman.com. February 8, 2012.

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

  Gilles Deleuze

  Slumber, Reason, Insomniac

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

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• CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!

  Jeff Smith

  Control Myself, Ideas, Whole

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• I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Men, Found

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