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

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

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek. - Nicholas Stuart Gray

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. - H.P. Lovecraft