#monster

I've created such a monster. ↗

— Rip Taylor

#i #monster #such

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#beauty #blasphemy #brings #corruption #devours

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

I think I may have created a monster with my - I won't say act - but with my redneck pose. ↗

— Billy Carter

#created #i #i think #may #monster

You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist? And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might see themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#writing #inspirational

There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#fiction #invisible-monsters #life

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#canada #complex #culture #ego #fascinating

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#sleeps #thinking #woman

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. ↗

— Yeardley Smith

#create #few #monster #then #whine

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#monsters