“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
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Friedrich Nietzsche 655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
Quote from Courbet's letter to Victor Hugo, 1864; as cited by Sarah Faunce and Linda Nochlin, in Courbet Reconsidered; exhibition catalogue, The Brooklyn Museum, 1988, p. 188
1860s
The Foghorn, first published in The Saturday Evening Post (1951) with the title "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms"
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool.”
interview with 3am
Context: The thing about good pulp is that you trust the reader and you know that the mind is a machine to process metaphors so of course all those connections will be there. But you've also granted the fantastic its own dynamic and allowed that awe. There's no contradiction. So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool. There's no contradiction.
Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms, and other small Seismisms, The States of Theory, ed. David Carroll, New York: Columbia University Press, 1989.
“Maybe the world.. has run out of room.. for monsters.”
Swamp Thing (1983–1987)
“We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare
The monsters out”
"The Bed"
Actor (2009)
Context: We're sleeping underneath the bed to scare
The monsters out
With our dear daddy's Smith and Wesson. We've got to teach them all a lesson.