"And the stars in the night were the eyes of his wolf, and the wind itself was their song."

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“Wolf in the Night” in A Song of Ice and Fire

"Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel."

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The Star Rover by Jack London

"If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of."

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Akira Kurosawa’s brother in Something like an Autobiography

"Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost."

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Dante’s Divine Comedy

"You seem to be under the impression that there is a special breed of bad humans. There is no such thing as a stereotype bad man in this world. Under normal conditions, everybody is more or less good, or, at least, ordinary. But tempt them, and they may suddenly change. That is what is so frightening about men."

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Natsume Soseki’s Kokoro

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Fear peoples darkness with monsters."

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Saying

Set fire to your hair
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear
Eat medicines that’s out of date
Use your private parts as piranha bait

Dumb ways to die, so many dumb ways to die.

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Tangerin Kitty’s Dumb Ways to Die

"Someday my pain, someday my pain
Will mark you
Harness your blame, harness your blame
And walk through"

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Bon Iver’s The Wolves (Act I and II)

"We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously."

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George R. R. Martin

"[…] but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public."

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Akira Kurosawa’s Something like an Autobiography

"Happiness is a How; not a What. A talent, not an object."

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Hermann Hesse

"Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders… burning with the fires of Orc."

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Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

"I can say I definitely didn’t do it because I know what I did or didn’t do. But I cannot definitely say that about anybody else, ‘cause I don’t definitely know."

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Mr. Pink in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs

"There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility."

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Stieg Larsson’s The Girl who played with Fire