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“Monsters don’t exist. It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.”
― Niccolò Ammaniti, I'm Not Scared

“...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
― Colson Whitehead

“It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.”
― Samantha Young, Shades of Blood

“She is so lovely she could kill you without you even noticing it. A monster girl who knows when to kiss and when to kill.”
― Cameron Jace, Snow White Sorrow

“We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.”
― Mike Carey & Peter Gross, The Unwritten, Vol. 1: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity

“But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around--they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor”
― Jonathan Maberry, Rot & Ruin

“You worry that we're becoming monsters. Merlin, we already were monsters. You didn't make us any worse.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Thousandth Night / Minla's Flowers

“Monsters can live inside a person. Sometimes, they know about it. More often, they don’t. The monster makes them feel safe, or at the very least, better. As long as you know it’s there, you can co-exist with it. Give it what it wants, and it will return the favor. Other times, the monster takes over.
Bares its teeth.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“One man carries salvation and damnation from the desert.”
― Matthew Sawyer, Pazuzu - Manifestation

“Monsters�� can help us by giving a tangible form to our secret fears. It is less widely appreciated today that ‘wonders�� such as the unicorn legitimize our hopes. But all imaginary animals, to some degree all animals, are ultimately both monsters and wonders, which assist us by deflecting and absorbing our uncertainties . It is hard to tell ‘imaginary animals�� from symbolic, exemplary, heraldic, stylized, poetic, literary, or stereotypical ones. What is reality? Until we answer that question with confidence, a sharp differentiation between real animals and imaginary ones will remain elusive. There is some yeti in every ape, and a bit of Pegasus in every horse. Men and women are not only part angel and part demon, as the old cliché goes; they are also part centaur, part werewolf, part mandrake, and part sphinx.”
― Boria Sax, Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human

“Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. "We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna do it by being bigger monsters than they are! You understand? There ain't no philosophy, there ain't no grace, there ain't no mercy, there's only us and them, and all they wanna do is eat our ass! So we're gonna fucking eat them! We're gonna chew 'em up and spit 'em out, and we're gonna survive this thing or I will blow a hole through this whole fucked up world! You follow me? You FOLLOW ME!”
― Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga

“Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.”
― Catherynne M. Valente

“I am Darkness. I am Shadow. I am the Ruler of the Night. I, alone, stand between mankind and those who would see mankind destroyed. I am the Guardian. The Soulless Keeper. Neither Human, nor Apollite, I exist beyond the realm of the Living, beyond the realm of the Dead. I am the Dark-Hunter. And I am Eternal…unless I find that one pure heart who will never betray me. The one whose faith and courage can return my soul to me and bring me back into the light. (Dark-Hunter Creed)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Embrace

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucious

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
― Confucius

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
― Confucius

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
― Confucius

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
― Confucius, Confucius: The Analects

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
― Confucius

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
― Confucius

“Silence is a true friend who never betrays.”
― Confucius

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
― Confucius

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
― Confucius