#monsters

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. ↗

— Francisco de Goya

#arts #fantasy #impossible #marvels #monsters

If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#active #early #eat #getting #great

Everyone carries around his own monsters. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#carries #everyone #his #monsters #own

There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#heroes #monsters #sansa #sansa-stark #life

I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step. ↗

— Stephen Sommers

#go #i #i love #like #love

What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams. ↗

— Werner Herzog

#monsters #ocean #sleep #dreams

No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#mean #monsters #people #business

All monsters are queers. Who is able to bring the dead back to life? God and the Devil. The Devil makes dead men into monsters: immortal, immoral—and queer. ↗

— Derek McCormack

#monsters #queer #vampires #life

… we have bad dreams because our brain is trying to protect us… If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters … Then the real monsters don’t seem so scary… That’s why we like reading scary stories. ↗

— Dan Poblocki

#monsters #scared #dreams

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#doubts #monsters #experience