{"id":3880,"date":"2015-10-20T03:20:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T10:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3880"},"modified":"2015-10-19T19:27:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T02:27:44","slug":"quotes-about-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/quotes-about-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes about Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3881\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Monsters.jpg\" alt=\"Monsters Quotes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Monsters.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Monsters-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Monsters-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Eddie discovered one of his childhood&#8217;s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=It\">It<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Stephen%20King\">Stephen King<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Call%20of%20Cthulhu\">The Call of Cthulhu<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=H.%20P.%20Lovecraft\">H. P. Lovecraft<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>It was the incarnation of blind and insensate Greed. It was a monster devouring with a thousand mouths, trampling with a thousand hoofs; it was the Great Butcher&#8211;it was the spirit of Capitalism made flesh.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Jungle\">The Jungle<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Upton%20Sinclair\">Upton Sinclair<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>&#8220;O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on.&#8221;<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Othello\">Othello<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=William%20Shakespeare\">William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes about Monsters from Literature &#8211; Eddie discovered one of his childhood&#8217;s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought. ~ It by Stephen King and more . . . <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[541,843,852,277,536,745,853,854,142],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-h-p-lovecraft","tag-it","tag-monster-quotes","tag-othello","tag-stephen-king","tag-the-call-of-cthulhu","tag-the-jungle","tag-upton-sinclair","tag-william-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}