"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."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters."
— Rick Riordan

"The real world is where the monsters are."
— Rick Riordan (The Lightning Thief)

"Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters."
— Stephen King (The Shining)

"If I can't be beautiful, I want to be invisible."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams."
— Werner Herzog

"Most of my adult life so far has been me standing on seamless paper for a raft of bucks per hour, wearing clothes and shoes, my hair done and some famous fashion photographer telling me how to feel.
Him yelling, Give me lust, baby.
Flash
Give me malice.
Flash
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"You can only hold a smile for so long before it becomes just teeth."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil."
— Christopher Pike (The Last Vampire)

""the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.""
— Chuck Palahniuk

"He who fights monsters should look into that he himself does not become a monster. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

"I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words"
— Alfred de Vigny (Stello)

"The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous"
— John le Carré

"Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?"
— Charles Baudelaire

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell."
— Mike Carey

""The one you love and the one who loves you are never ever the same person""
— Chuck Palahniuk

" Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit.
And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value."
— Andrew Sullivan