Monsters Within Quotes

“... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them-- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.”
― Emm Cole, The Short Life of Sparrows

“We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.”
― Mackenzi Lee, This Monstrous Thing

“Amid secrets and monsters and fire and death; amid every uncertainty; love existed. Love was real. It was the one certainty.”
― Dianna Hardy, Aftershock

“He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, “Beyond here be monsters.”… He stepped into the beyond, and found the monsters hidden deep inside all the reasonable, gentle, laughing people. He went where even they were afraid to go.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“Over-thinking, a devouring monster,
entice, only the inky reflections;
there's a pleasure you come by,
from this anomalous encounter;
kills your desire, for human affection.”
― Kashish Gurung

“Where monsters lurked, love also waited.
Bigger than any monster could be.”
― Dianna Hardy, Aftershock

“Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous.”
― Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust

“There was a monster in me that had to be fed by success. There is a monster in us all that has to be fed by something.”
― Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love

“If it's a monster, we made it that way.”
― Shane Arbuthnott, Dominion

“Do you remember bedtime as a child? I was terrified of the dark. I was terrified of the closed closet door that surely cracked open when I wasn't looking and spewed out ghouls and devils. I took care that no arms or legs protruded from the bed. I sometimes slept with the covers over my head. Sweltering, panting, barely breathing. Not even my hair exposed, lest a monster discover and devour me. I remember begging my father to check under the bed. I remember trying to explain how some monsters had invisibility cloaks. He would kiss my cheek and switch off the light.

We stop looking under the bed once we realize that the monsters are inside us.

It's funny how they transform. Suddenly they don't mind daylight. Suddenly they dress nicely, speak our language, and share our customs. They sit next to us on the metro and jog around our neighborhoods. They slip things into our drinks at parties and offer us jobs. Sometimes we spot them, sometimes we don't. Sometimes we even do the unthinkable: we invite them to our bed. As adults, we burn down the sanctuaries we created as children. Our inner child freaks out, but its screams are drowned by our moans as our monsters bring us to orgasm.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“They were doomed, I knew, and I was glad. (p.45)”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“The reason Armand Gamache could go there was because it wasn't totally foreign to him. He knew it because he’d seen his own burned terrain, he’d walked off the familiar and comfortable path inside his own head and heart and seen what festered in the dark. And one day Jean Guy Beauvoir would look at his own monsters, and then be able to recognize others. And maybe this was the day and this was the case. He hoped so.”
― Louise Penny, A Rule Against Murder

“Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions.”
― Jacquelyn Nicole Davis, Trace The Grace: A Memoir

“Does the prisoner have any final words?”

Canis looked out at the crowd and laughed.

“What’s so funny, mongrel?” Heart shouted.

“Look at all the monsters,” he said.”
― Michael Buckley, Tales From the Hood

“You need to realize that Its not you, It's me, I'm the one who's destroying myself, I'm the one who's the monster, I'm the one who's drowning myself, and you , you're just a ken doll that I can work up, That I can manipulate and make believe that every things your fault and you need to leave me as soon as you can, before I turn you into me, before I destroy you, before I turn you into a heartless monster.”
― TheNightmaresAreReal

“A not-so-easy pill to swallow, is the fact that much of the time, you are fighting monsters that you yourself have fashioned. Yes, there are toxic relationships, toxic individuals, but there also exists the monsters that you have fashioned with your own mind. You think you are being chased, captured, wounded, by these monsters when in fact you alone are composed of the entire capability to dismantle them piece-by-piece, because in reality they exist in your mind and you have fashioned them as the creator of your inner world, as the author of your own epic tale. In this sense, you may reassemble your world and you may remake the plot of your own story. The key is realising how much of the darkness is actually your own doing, digging for their roots, and figuring out how to begin dismantling.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Did they murder each other more gently because in the woods sweet songbirds sang?”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“Some days I’m more girl than monster. Some days I wonder what the monster has done with the girl.”
― Kristin Kory, Hungry For Ghosts: a collection of poetry

“They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.”
― Kippa

“She loses it. She cries long and hard. She's in pain. Torture. I can feel it emanating from her. It exists deep down in her soul. It's not about the dog, I know. It isn't even really about her mother, and it certainly isn't her father. It has nothing to do with him. It's not about me, or her, or anyone else. Not about Daniel, or Paul, or Ray. It's about life, and how cruel it can sometimes be...How unfair life is. All of us have a hand in it. We do what we have to do, take what we have to take, and sometimes we hurt people we swear we won't hurt, but we do, because life makes us. It's a dog eat dog world. We're all monsters, when it comes down to it.”
― J.M. Darhower

“If we don’t like these monsters we’re creating then maybe we should consider the Frankensteins we have ourselves become.”
― Jacob Riggs

“Plenty of humans are monstrous, and plenty of monsters know how to play at being human.”
― V.A. Vale

“Everyone has slipped behind their alter ego, becoming someone different or perhaps closer to who they truly are.”
― Eddy Boudel Tan, The Tiger and the Cosmonaut