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Quotes About Demon

Holiness requires as great, or almost as great, an effort; but holiness works on lines that were natural once; it is an effort to recover the ecstasy that was before the Fall. But sin is an effort to gain the ecstasy and the knowledge that pertain alone to angels, and in making this effort man becomes a demon.
~ Arthur Machen
El demonio existe, no sólo como símbolo del mal, sino como realidad física...» ¿Le gusta? Pues lo escribió un papa, Pablo VI. En 1974.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The biblical Goliath was also a demon, which should tell you plenty about the accuracy of that little story, because it'd take a hell of a lot more than a stupid slingshot to take out a demon. (David actually lured Goliath under a cliff face and had some friends drop a big rock on him.)
~ Gene Doucette
I'm always lonely when I'm on my own—a leftover I think from the Demon, who always struck when I was alone—but towards the end of filming I realized that I was going to be lonelier when I returned to my home and family.
~ Gene Wilder
A]n angel is often only a demon who stands between us and our enemy.
~ Gene Wolfe
Hence, a devout Christian must avoid astrologers and all impious soothsayers, especially when they tell the truth, for fear of leading his soul into error by consorting with demons and entangling himself with the bonds of such association.
~ Saint Augustine
Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.
~ Samuel Johnson
A savage place! as holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover!
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Si el demonio supiera amar, dejaría de ser malvado
~ SANTA TERESA DE AVILA
There's a demon named Kali; he loves slaughterhouses and gold. He likes to gamble and he likes to fuck things up.
~ Sara Gran
no one had lived up to the roles they acted out in public. They wasted their years trying to live the lies that they had created for themselves. Only in private could they really be the demons, hypocrites and sinners they really were, and woe betide anyone who caught them at their game, because the only thing worse than a lie is a lie exposed.
~ Marilyn Manson
La bestia de la cual vivían atemorizados era en realidad ellos mismos: Era el hombre, no algún demonio mitológico, quien a final iba a destruir al hombre. Y esta bestia había sido creada de su miedo.
~ Marilyn Manson
Los zorros del desierto de Sechura aúllan como demonios cuando llega la noche; ¿sabes por qué?: para quebrar el silencio que los aterroriza.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Los zorros del desierto de Sechura aúllan como demonios cuando llega la noche; ¿sabes por qué?: para quebrar el silencio que los aterroriza»
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
The adversary must first be made into a demon before people will accept the war. This was why during the Cold War, the U.S. government became infuriated at any
~ Mark Kurlansky
What do you get when you mix my blood with holy water? Nick Demon napalmKody
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The demon in me that knows there's a demon in you who can mop the floor with my raunchy butt tells me to say yes. I care. Deeply. (Ren)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Thorn swept a speculative glance over Nick's body. "My girl's calling you a liar." "If my girl was here, she'd be calling you an idiot." Thorn growled. Nick growled back. Caleb laughed at them both. "Simi, we should be filming this. We could make a killing on it." "Already recorded, akri-demon. Just let the Simi know whenever you want the full-color playback.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
it was a joyful sight, to see the first twistings and turnings of the demon caught
~ Shirley Jackson
Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
~ John Searles
We've all had those nights where drunken sex with a witch in a blood pentagram under a full moon on the roof of your favourite Johannesburg nightclub summons a hard-drinking demon who changes the fate of the human race forever. Right? No? Just me, then?
~ John West
My dear Pepper," said Ellery, "that is the curse of my composition. I'm always thinking. I'm pursued by what Byron in Childe Harold—you recall that magnificent first canto?—saw fit to call, 'The blight of life—the demon Thought.
~ Ellery Queen
The demon-of-all-demons for conservatives is, not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton! She's an uppity woman (Category 5, opposing the moral order), a former antiwar activist who is pro-choice (Category 4), a protector of the "public good" (Category 3), someone who gained her influence not on her own but through her husband (Category 2), and a supporter of multiculturalism (Category 1). It would be hard for the conservatives to invent a better demon-of-all-demons. These
~ George Lakoff