Monsters have appeared in many cultures and folklore for centuries due to their ability to hide in plain sight and be hidden away. 🧟♂️
Because of this, I have found some of the best quotes about monsters that uncover some revealing insights about these creatures.
Side note: I do plan on updates this list frequently, so if I have missed must-have quotes or sayings, please share them below and I will be sure to include them! 😃
93+ Revealing Quotes About Monsters
1. “We are all monsters.” – Isabelle Rowan
2. “Monsters preferred solitude.” – Hafsah Faizal
3.”Every monster was a man first.” – Edwards Albee
4. “Even monsters are beautiful.” – Alastair Reynold
5. “Art, like nature, has her monsters.” – Oscar Wilde
6. “Monsters don’t get happy endings.” – Paula Stokes
7. “The real world is where the monsters are.” – Rick Riordan
8. “Not all monsters are filled with darkness.” – Carrie Ryan
9. “Only monsters could slay monsters.” – Imraan Coovadia
10. “All monsters have their fits of depression.” – Rachilde
11. “The world is chock-full of monsters.” – Rafael Yglesias
12. “Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.” – Ogden Nash
13. “She was a monster, but she was my monster.” – Jeanette Winterson
14. “It’s men you should be afraid of, not monsters.” – Niccolo Ammaniti
15. “Hiding from the monsters only made them stronger.” – C.L. Wilson
16. “A monster’s worst fear is of being found.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
17. “I suppose even monsters can be afraid of the dark.” – Leslye Walton
18. “All monsters must die except the beautiful ones.” – Cameron Jace
19. “Everyone carries around his own monsters.” – Jonathan Maberry
20. “There are no heroes in life, the monsters win.” – George R. R. Martin
21. “Monsters have the worst taste in women.” – Tera Lynn Childs
22. “The only monsters I have ever known were men.” – Jodi Picoult
23.”Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.” – Stephen King
24. “The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract.” – Rick Riordan
25. “Life would be perfect if the monster would stop farting.” – David Chuka
26. “Even monsters are in awe of the light.” – Anthony T. Hincks
27. “Monsters are only ever-fascinating from a far.” – Charlie N. Holmberg
28. “We’ve made monsters we don’t know how to fight.” – Richard Smyth
29. “The monsters under my bed moved to my head.” – Lidia Longorio
30. “Sometimes, monsters needed to die.” – K. B. Rainwater
31. “Imagination creates some big monsters.” – Olivier Martinez
32. “There are no monsters in the dark.” – Victoria Schwab
33. “If I can’t be beautiful, I want to be invisible.” – Chuck Palahniuk
34. “A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.” – Andrienne Rich
35. “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” – Colson Whitehead
36. “God didn’t create monsters. Monsters created themselves.” – Karina Halle
37. “Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.” – Rick Riordan
38. “A monster does not recognize himself in a mirror.” – Mike Klepper
39. “I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.” – Teju Cole
40. “Every monster could be saved.” – Shannon A. Thompson
41. “Monsters know when they are recognized, just as bores do.” – Thomas Harris
42. “Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection.” – Guillermo del Toro
43. “Men do not fear swords they fear monsters.” – Dracula Untold
44. “Monsters are tamed so that they can be bought and sold.” – Amber L. Davisson
45. “This monstrous king could be undone by the touch of her lips.” – Emily A. Duncan
46. “The only monsters in this world are men and myths.” – Courtney M. Privett
47. “There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.” – Andre Gide
48. “Even monsters seek companionship, or an audience, anyway.” – Yoon Ha Lee
49. “Monsters are more dangerous when they’re afraid.” – Victoria Aveyard
50. “Sometimes, humans were more monstrous than anything else.” – Jennifer Estep
51. “The more monstrous humanity gets, the nicer monsters become.” – Unknown
52. “Be careful in the company of monsters that you don’t become one.” – Cindy Gerard
53. “The most gentle creatures in the world, are sometimes the most feared.” – Dean Mackin
54. “When a human’s tears dry up forever, they transform into a monster.” – Kohta Hirano
54. “The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters.” – Mathias Malzieu
55. “Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them.” – Glen Duncan
56. “No use in fearing the monsters under your bed when you’ve become them.” – Kayla Krantz
57. “Sometimes monsters are things people should be scared of, but they aren’t.” – Neil Gaiman
58. “Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.” – John Malkovich
59. “I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.” – Robert Fanney
60. “The best way to cleanse the world from monsters is by not becoming one.” – Jorge P. Guerrero
61. “Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn’t mean they should.” – Kelly Moran
62. “Where monsters lurked, love also waited. Bigger than any monster could be.” – Dianna Hardy
63. “We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.” – Colson Whitehead
64. No one’s the monster in their own story. Monsters are just a matter of perspective.” – C.A. Fletcher
65. “Blank pages are like monsters that haunt my dreams until I feed them words.” – V.M. Sawh
66. “I am able to play monsters well. I understand monsters. I understand madmen.” – Anthony Hopkins
67, “We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.” – Mike Carey
68. “He had become a monster, happily, for just a moment of having his head above water.” – Ian St. Martin
69.”It’s the monsters that don’t wear costumes that scare me the most at Halloween.” – Anthony T. Hincks
70. “We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.” – Colson Whitehead
71. “True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.” – Silje Akselberg Iversen
72. “The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous.” – John le Carré
73. “Murderers are not monsters, they’re men. And that’s the most frightening thing about them.” – Alice Sebold
74. “Monsters almost always are the culture’s way of working out their fears.” – Catherynne M. Valente
76. “You don’t get to become someone’s hero unless you are already another’s monster.” – Adhish Mazumder
77. “Even monsters must dream of fears and wants, and the sadness in his voice drew me closer.” – Marie Lu
78. “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” – Stephen King
79. “They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.” – Marjorie M. Liu
80. “Monsters have been usurped by man’s own terror, by man’s own mad destruction.” – Robert Hood & Robin Pen
81. “I won’t lie and say my kind are never monstrous. Just that we’re only as monstrous as your kind are.” – Kara Barbieri
82. “The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.” – Seanan Mcguire
83. “The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.” – Seanan McGuire
84. “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
85. “You have plunged yourself into the dark where the monsters dwell; now you must fight them off before you’re consumed.” – Emily A. Duncan
86. “We’re all monsters. The world won’t let us survive otherwise. But we’re not dispassionate. However damaged, we still have hearts.” – Gaja J. Kos
87. “Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘Here are our monsters, without immediately turning the monsters into pets.” – Jacques Derrida
88. “Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies.” – George R.R. Martin
89. “What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.” – Charles Baudelaire
90.” He who fights monsters must take care, lest he himself become a monster in the process. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.” – Nietzsche
91. “The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. Fear, doubt, and hate have hamstrung more people than beasts ever have.” – Christopher Paolini
92. “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.” –
93.”Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” – Primo Levi
Final Thoughts
Hopefully, these quotes about monsters have helped you to better navigate around these creatures that may have made their way into your life or dreams.