37 Quotes About Monsters

Monsters have long captured our imagination, inhabiting the pages of folklore, literature, and cinema as embodiments of our deepest fears and darkest fantasies. These creatures, whether lurking in the shadows or boldly confronting us, offer profound insights into human nature and society. In exploring the realm of monsters, one can find a rich tapestry of metaphor and meaning, revealing truths about the human experience. This curated collection of 37 quotes about monsters not only delves into the eerie and the extraordinary but also reflects on the complexities of what it means to be human. Whether they serve as cautionary tales or symbols of misunderstood beings, these quotes challenge us to confront the monsters both around and within us.

1. “I was working in the lab late one nightWhen my eyes beheld an eerie sight. For my monster from his slab began to riseAnd suddenly to my surprise.He did the mash.He did the monster mash.” - Bobby Pickett

2. “You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.” - John Steinbeck

3. “Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.” - Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

4. “...his eyes lit up and glowed red against the dark bulk of it. A moment they remained so ... then they soared up, phosphorescently opalescent, with a predominance of red, like two sinful dead planets escaping from Hell.” - Jessie Douglas Kerruish

5. “Gravity is not a trivial monster.” - Frank Cottrell Boyce

6. “Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.” - Jodi Picoult

7. “The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.” - Rick Yancey

8. “What freedom men and women could have, were they not constantly tricked and trapped and enslaved and tortured by their sexuality! The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. One would be a monster.” - John Steinbeck

9. “A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?” - Kristin Cashore

10. “It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.” - Voltaire

11. “People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.” - Andrzej Sapkowski

12. “Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?” - Mary Shelley

13. “Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.” - Stephen King

14. “The monster nevers dies.” - Stephen King

15. “I'm on the edge, Neblin, I'm off the edge - I'm over the edge and falling into hell on the other side.''Calm down, John,' he said. 'We can work through this. Just tell me where you are.''I'm down in the cracks of the sidewalks,' I said, 'in the dirt and in the blood, and the ants are looking up and we're damning you all, Neblin. I'm down in the cracks and I can't get out.” - Dan Wells

16. “And suddenly, in the place of the woman-shape made of shadow, there was something else. Something huge, something ugly. Linay flung up both hands. The thing screamed like a hawk and opened to wings: one white as a death cap, one clotted in shadow. The wings came together and the whole pond shuddered.Something hit Kate's ear and shoulder and smashed to the deck by her feet. It was a swallow, dead. She could hear them falling all over the pond.” - Erin Bow

17. “The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.” - Kendare Blake

18. “- the rusalka was kneeling beside Plain Kate on the deck. She was made of fog and shadow until Kate caught her eye, and then, all at once, she became human. She was young, mischievously sad, a fox in a story. Kate fell in love with her. And then she was gone.” - Erin Bow

19. “Who cares even if I didn't?!" Conor shouted back. "They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!"The monster looked at him quizzically. How strange, it said. The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seems to suggest otherwise.” - Patrick Ness

20. “When your mother is the grave and your father is a lightning bolt it tends to make you kind of horny. And death has a way of removing one's inhibitions.” - Aussiescribbler

21. “It was a strange monster, for beneath its exterior it was frightened and sickened by its own violence. It chastised itself for its savagery. And sometimes it had no heart for violence and rebelled against it utterly.” - Kristin Cashore

22. “I am bold to Say that neither you nor I, will live to See the Course which 'the Wonders of the Times' will take. Many Years, and perhaps Centuries must pass, before the current will acquire a Settled direction... yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistic Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1,500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, July 16 1814}” - John Adams

23. “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.” - Mary Shelley

24. “Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.” - Kristen Cashore

25. “We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.” - Douglas Preston

26. “Why do I always have to remind you to look to where the danger waits, Warrior. Sheesh, what would you do without me?“Uh, not be a murderous psycho?”Very funny.” - H.D. Gordon

27. “Its better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.” - William Jevning

28. “What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.” - Benjamin Alire Saenz

29. “Then the queenmother said, "I am done with weeping." She whistled for the grey wolves that guarded her keep, and they loped at her heels as she rode around the Inward Sea and south to Ramas, and the way was long and hard. She knelt before her brother, King Thyrse, and begged him to lend this strength to save her son and kingdom from the lamia's stranglehold. But he bade her go hom to her northern keep, saying, "It more befits a woman to weep than to war." She rent her gown and showed under it a corset of steel, saying, "Brother, by our sire and our dame, remember the same blood runs in both our veins.” - Sarah Micklem

30. “Just close your eyes and try to think it overYou realize I'm not the man you know, girlI hypotize yaI paralyze yaGo on and scream cause nobody's gonna find yaDid I ever think to tell you I am a monster?You ain't ever seen this side of meMaybe I should wear a warning that says there is danger,If you ever get too close to me...” - kris allen

31. “While discussing the monster:"It sounds like the combination of water being poured into a glass," Miss Hawkline said, "A dog barking and the muttering of a drunk parrot. And very, very loud.""I think we're going to need the shotgun for this one," Cameron said.” - Richard Brautigan

32. “I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention.” - Robert O'Sullivan

33. “Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.” - Rick Yancey

34. “You can't leave. You're bought and paid for. - X-10” - Donna Galanti

35. “I was born unworthy. - X-10” - Donna Galanti

36. “The only thing humans are equal in is death.” - Johan Liebert

37. “Donegan Bane and Gracious O'Callahan - the Monster Hunters. Adventurers, inventors, authors of Monster Hunting for Beginners and it's sequels, Monster Hunting for Beginners is Probably Inadvisable and Seriously, Dude, Stop Monster Hunting.” - Derek Landy