Quotes About Exorcism

Perché in fondo l'abitudine è un rito, si crede di fare qualcosa come se fosse un piacere e in realtà si sta ubbidendo a un dovere che ci si è imposti. O anche uno scongiuro, pensò, forse l'abitudine è anche una forma di esorcismo, e poi la si sente come un piacere.

I love 'Paranormal Activity' because it scares you more with little effort. I like 'The Blair Witch Project' and the 'Omen' series and 'The Exorcist.' I love 'Exorcism of Emily Rose.'

First, the healings and exorcisms of Jesus are associated with the coming of the kingdom of God and a time of deliverance.

It's theatre, Felix protests now, in his head. The art of true illusions! Of course it deals in traumatic situations! It conjures up demons in order to exorcise them! Haven't you read the Greeks? Does the word catharsis mean anything to you?

Aimee-If someone's possessed by a demon, how do you get the demon out? Xedrix-Call a priest.

After I saw 'The Exorcist' it took me a while before I could fall asleep - that girl's head turning around and throwing up all that pea soup!

Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

For all her stunning looks, she was a brutal interrogator who often exceeded her brief because she was exorcizing demons of her own.

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.

One's own yesterday is a ghost that will not be laid. Death is the only exorcism.

To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is 'The Exorcist.' It still scares the living hell out of me, and it's because of the fantasy element. It's the exorcism. It's the Devil. It's not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don't do it for me, and I don't call them horror.

The art of exorcising machines has been lost for so long that we have not a single book of prayers and ceremonies concerning it.

The Catholic Church created strict guidelines for the rite of exorcism back in 1614—guidelines that have remained largely unchanged in 400 years. However, one notable amendment came in 1952, when priests were warned not to confuse mental illness with demonic possession

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

Even the unspeakable tortures to which the accused women were subjected acquire a different meaning when we conceive them as a form of exorcism against their powers.

Though we nearly lost everything last month, when the mainframe got possessed by Sumerian demons, and we had to call in a technodruid to exorcise it. I'd never heard language like that before, and even after it was all over, the office still smelled of burning mistletoe for weeks. And I might add that the computer Helpline people were no bloody use at all.

Only people like us still kept a watchful eye on Lud's Drum, because dimensional barriers in and around the town had been dangerously weak ever since Timothy Leary dropped a heroic dose of LSD and peyote there and tried to perform a remote exorcism on the Pentagon.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

I thought about telling him the truth: 'Oh, nothing. Just having my soul exorcised so I can roam around purgatory, looking for the ghost of the dead cowboy who used to live in my bedroom.

Often a spirit seizes him … and it throws him into convulsions… . I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn't. Luke 9:39–40