Yo okie Guillermo has some of the best quotes and lines Iâve ever heard, here are just a few of his quotes that have me questioning life:
âWhat is a ghost? A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again? A moment of pain, perhaps. Something dead which still seems to be alive. An emotion suspended in time. Like a blurred photograph. Like an insect trapped in amber.â
âI knew that monsters were far more gentle and more desirable than the monsters living inside ânice people.â Accepting that you are a monster gives you the leeway to not behave like one. When you deny being a monster, you behave like one.â
âWhen you see something or experience something extraordinary, you canât go back to normal⊠I think that thatâs the way I see the supernatural-as happening in mundane circumstances or to people who are unpreparedâ
âTo learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our soulsâ
âAny legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naĂŻve and simpleâŠwhen all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides usâŠâ
And the last but certainly not the least:
âIn fairy tales, monsters exist to be a manifestation of something that we need to understand, not only a problem we need to overcome, but also they need to represent, much like angels represent the beautiful, pure, eternal side of the human spirit, monsters need to represent a more tangible, more mortal side of being human: aging, decay, darkness and so forth. And I believe that monsters originally, when we were cavemen and you know, sitting around a fire, we needed to explain the birth of the sun and the death of the moon and the phases of the moon and rain and thunder. And we invented creatures that made sense of the world: a serpent that ate the sun, a creature that ate the moon, a man in the moon living there, things like that. And as we became more and more sophisticated and created sort of a social structure, the real enigmas started not to be outside. The rain and the thunder were logical now. But the real enigmas became social. All those impulses that we were repressing: cannibalism, murder, these things needed an explanation. The sex drive, the need to hunt, the need to kill, these things then became personified in monsters. Werewolves, vampires, ogres, this and that. I feel that monsters are here in our world to help us understand it. They are an essential part of a fable.â