Since childhood, I've been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing. - Guillermo del Toro

He who fights with monsters should take care that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

To us forever are the gates of heaven shut. For who shall open them to us again? We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God’s sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. - Bram Stoker, Dracula

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence…. Someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never. - Franz Kafka

She was of divine stock, not of men, in the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the midst a goat, breathing forth in terrible wise the might of blazing fire. - Homer’s Illiad