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Quotes About Demon

The demon has a name that is known among men, though it frightens few and draws many, alas! His name is Self, and he is the shadow of your own self. First he made you love him, which was evil, and now he has made you hate him, which is evil also. But if he be cast out and never more enter into your heart, but remain as a servant in your hall, then you will recover from this sickness, and be whole and sound, and will find the varlet serviceable.
~ George MacDonald
Why, if all the creatures in the world gathered together to make a single gnat and put a soul into it, they would not succeed!' No more than man can make a gnat can demons, according to another tradition, make anything smaller than a grain of barley. But those who favored the thaumaturgic interpretation of the Book of Yetsirah, and believed that a man or golem could be created with its help,.... Idea of the Golem p. 171
~ Gershom Scholem
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
~ George Packer
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
~ Terry Pratchett
Archmagi and demons were routine tasks, but Housemind would not tempt the displeasure of a librarian Like black holes, they were a cosmic force better circumvented than challenged.
~ Scott Lynch
Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, nursed a hard grievance. It harrowed him to hear the din of the loud banquet every day in the hall, the harp being struck and the clear song of a skilled poet telling with mastery of man's beginnings
~ Seamus Heaney
Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, nursed a hard grievance.
~ Seamus Heaney
Shut up, already. Just once, could I get a demon with no vocal cords? (Anonymous) At least they're not puking on us this time. (Wynter) Small favor that. (Anonymous)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Time is fluid here', said the Demon.
~ Neil Gaiman
Pitala sam se jesu li muškarci doista toliko zaslijepljeni ljepotom da bi se osje?ali povlaštenima proživjeti život s nekim stvarnim demonom ako bi to bio lijepi demon.
~ Arthur Golden
Me pregunté si los hombres se dejarían cegar hasta tal punto por la belleza que llegaran a sentirse privilegiados de poder vivir con un verdadero demonio, mientras fuera un demonio hermoso.
~ Arthur Golden
M? întrebam dac? b?rbaÈ›ii pot fi atât de orbiÈ›i de frumuseÈ›e încât s? fie dispuÈ™i s?-È™i petreac? viaÈ›a al?turi de un demon, cu condiÈ›ia s? fie un demon frumos.
~ Arthur Golden
For all her stunning looks, she was a brutal interrogator who often exceeded her brief because she was exorcizing demons of her own.
~ Arundhati Roy
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
She scared me a little bit," recalled Harry King. "There was something about her that made me feel uneasy. I used to say it to Way: 'She has a demon inside of her.
~ Stephen Fried
We recognize that if we had ever encountered the real demon demigod Achilles, we woul have feared and dreaded him, hated his temper, despised his pride and been repelled by his savagery. But we know too that we could not have helped loving him.
~ Stephen Fry
He looks like anybody you see on the street. But when he grins, birds fall dead off telephone lines...the grass yellows up and dies where he spits. He's always outside. He came out of time...He has the name of a thousand demons. Jesus knocked him into a herd of pigs once. His name is Legion. He's afraid of us...He knows magic. He can call the wolves and live in the crows...He's the king of nowhere.
~ Stephen King
I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.
~ Leanna Renee Hieber
The afrit batted his eyelashes with a ostentatious lack of concern. "Indeed? Have you a name?" "A name?" I cried. "I have MANY names! I am Bartimaeus! I am Sakhr al-Jinni! I am N'gorso the Mighty and the Serpent of Silver Plumes!" I paused dramatically. The young man looked blank. "Nope never heard of you. Now if you'll just-
~ Jonathan Stroud
Bartimaeus: By-name of the demon Sakhr al-Jinni, mentioned in Procopius and Michelot. A middle-ranking djinni of ancient standing, great ingenuity, and no little power. First recorded in Uruk; later in Jerusalem. Fought at the battle of al-Arish against the Assyrians. Known masters have included: Gilgamesh, Solomon, Zarbustibal, Heraclius, Hauser.
~ Jonathan Stroud
He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it -- it took a man to do that.
~ benet stephen vincent ii
A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.
~ Jeffrey Dean Morgan
I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'
~ Clive Owen
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. What is encountered may be Socrates, a temple or a demon. It may be grasped in a range of affective tones: wonder, love, hatred, suffering. In whichever tone, its primary characteristic is that it can only be sensed. In this sense it is opposed to recognition.
~ Gilles Deleuze