Quotes about monster
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“Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,…”
“I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.”
Variant: I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse.
Source: Invisible Monsters
“I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.”
quoted by Albert Frederick Calvert, in Goya; an account of his life and works; publisher London J. Lane, 1908; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, pp. 355-377
Goya wrote this inscription upon a later copy of the etching-plate Capricho no. 43
1790s
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
“I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.”
“Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.”
Source: The Monsters Of Hellboy II
Source: The Dresden Files, Fool Moon (2001), Chapter 1
Source: Storm Front
“Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.”
Source: Zone One
Source: The Demigod Files
Source: The Lightning Thief
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Source: Talulla Rising
“It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.”
Source: Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Independence Day address (1821)
Context: America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet on her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world; she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit.... Her glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
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.
“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”
“Not all monsters were three-ton reptiles with poisonous breath. Many wore human faces.”
Source: The Hidden Oracle
Source: Dark Lord of Derkholm
Source: Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness And Making Miracles
Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
“This inhuman place makes human monsters.”
Variant: Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.
Source: The Shining 1977
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
Loose translation, commonly attributed to Gramsci by Slavoj Žižek, presumably formulation by Žižek (see below).
Presumably a translation from a loose French translation by Gustave Massiah; strict English with cognate terms and glosses:
Le vieux monde se meurt, le nouveau monde tarde à apparaître et dans ce clair-obscur surgissent les monstres
The old world is dying, the new world tardy (slow) to appear and in this chiaroscuro (light-dark) surge (emerge) monsters.
“ Mongo Beti, une conscience noire, africaine, universelle http://www.liberationafrique.org/imprimersans.php3?id_article=16&nom_site=Lib%C3%A9ration”, Gustave Massiah, CEDETIM, août 2002 ( archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061734/http://www.liberationafrique.org/imprimersans.php3?id_article=16&nom_site=Lib%C3%A9ration, 2016-03-04)
“Mongo Beti, a Black, African, Universal Conscience”, Gustave Massiah, CEDETIM, August 2002
Collected in: Remember Mongo Beti, Ambroise Kom, 2003, p. 149 https://books.google.com/books?id=6YgdAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Le+vieux+monde+se+meurt,+le+nouveau+monde+tarde+%C3%A0+appara%C3%AEtre+et+dans+ce+clair-obscur+surgissent+les+monstres%22.
Original, with literal English translation (see above):
La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati.
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
Similar sentiments are widespread in revolutionary rhetoric; see: No, Žižek did not attribute a Goebbels quote to Gramsci http://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/07/03/no-zizek-did-not-attribute-a-goebbels-quote-to-gramsci/, Ross Wolfe, 2015-07-03
Misattributed
Source: Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.”
Source: The Winter Rose
Variant: Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.'
- Chang Bibi to Anita
Source: Bullet
“I was with the boy that monsters should fear.”
Source: Poison Princess
Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant
“Texting, even browsing the Internet - all these things can attract monsters.”
Source: The Lost Hero
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown