Archetype Quote by R. A. Lafferty

“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those…

— Thomas Hardy

The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of monsters. In…

— Doris Lessing

I've always felt there were aspects of me that were monstrous, and you can either hide from it or confront it, embrace it and…

— Ron Perlman

I never quite became the monster I wanted to be. I feel mostly monstrous as I more become myself. Because the more you become…

— Emil Ferris

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster . . .” I said. “And when…

— Larry Correia

My art has always been in response to visions. Rather than confine my subject to representations of the outer worlds, I include portrayals of…

— Alex Grey

Monsters are a departure from 'reality' in a way that allows for a range of fantastic possibilities. I mean this within the world of…

— Emil Ferris

“The superego is the inner voice that is always putting us down for not living up to certain standards or rewarding our ego when…

— Don Richard Riso

“Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so…

— John Steinbeck

“Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth, Dazed with the tall and echoing passages, The swift recoils, so many I almost feared I’d…

— Edwin Muir

Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.

— C. S. Lewis

“At this point, the sequence of my memories is disrupted. I sank into a chaos of brief, incoherent and bizarre hallucinations, in which the…

— Jean Lorrain