Monster Quotes

Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other. (George Eliot)
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! View quote
Denis Diderot
I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions. View quote
Lady Gaga
Your memory is a monster; you forget-it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you-and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! View quote
John Irving
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe jewelers, a monster watch and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show. View quote
Daniel Webster
Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? View quote
Clarice Lispector
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. View quote
John Steinbeck
This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me. View quote
John Steinbeck
Many myths and fairy tales tell of a prince, who has been turned into an animal or a monster by sorcery, being saved by a woman. This is a symbolic representation of the development of the animus toward consciousness. Often the heroine may ask no questions of her mysterious lover, or she is only allowed to meet him in darkness. She is to save him through her blind faith and love, but this never works. She always breaks her promise and is only able to find her beloved again after a long quest. (Marie-Louise von Franz)
O beware, my lord, of jealousy It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. View quote
Alfred Jarry
Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood. Thou many-headed monster thing, Oh who would wish to be thy king. View quote
Walter Scott
We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind. View quote
Douglas Preston
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it's really a gift. A world that might have Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster is clearly superior to one that definitely does not. View quote
Chris Van Allsburg
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her. View quote
Barry McGuire
I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up. View quote
Glenn Frey
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. View quote
Yeardley Smith
Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster. (Suetonius)
I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David. View quote
José Martí
If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 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. View quote
John Adams
Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster. View quote
George Eliot
These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town. View quote
James P. Cannon