9 Quotes About Monsters Within

Are you carrying around a monster inside of you? Many people carry such dark and vile thoughts and desires that they’re afraid to reveal them to anyone. When we’re repressed, we can become bitter and cynical. We might even become more fearful and anxious than we were before we started suppressing the negative thoughts in the first place. Once we start expressing them, however, we can begin to work through them and heal our minds and hearts Read more

The best way to deal with monsters is through understanding them — with the help of these monster within quotes that show that no matter how scary they seem, these inner beasts do not have to control us.

Though my mental illness is more likened to a big,...
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Though my mental illness is more likened to a big, nasty green monster than something heart-wrenchingly beautiful, I think I have learned many wonderful lessons from my many afflictions. Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
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...our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters. Emm Cole
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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
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Over-thinking, a devouring monster, entice, only the inky reflections;there's a pleasure you come by, from this anomalous encounter;kills your desire, for human affection. Kashish Gurung
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... not all monsters look like monsters. There are some that carry their monstrosity inside. Fredrik Backman
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We don't fall in love with people because they're good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognise. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them-- that's the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night. C. Joybell C.
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We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end. Mackenzi Lee
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The reason Armand Gamache could go there was because it wasn't totally foreign to him. He knew it because he’d seen his own burned terrain, he’d walked off the familiar and comfortable path inside his own head and heart and seen what festered in the dark. And one day Jean Guy Beauvoir would look at his own monsters, and then be able to recognize others. And maybe this was the day and this was the case. He hoped so. Louise Penny