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Quotes About Demon

He could imagine himself some demon of the air, taking wing to haunt the dreams of a man, seize upon a sleeping body and ride it—could he fly as far as England? he wondered. Was the night long enough?
~ Diana Gabaldon
On the one hand, the White Northerner often seeks to find sympathy and common ground with the White Southerner by disappearing the Black Southerner. On the other, the White Northerner seeks to express solidarity with the Black Southerner by turning the White Southerner into a caricatured demon in comparison to his own virtue.
~ Unknown
The baby kicked like a demon
~ Ira Levin
This is what spiritual warfare is all about. It's not looking for a demon in all the corners, but it's loving with faith.
~ Unknown
If Eric's a demon," I said slowly, "that makes you a..." "Rogue demon hunter." I blinked. "Lost in the Buffyverse, are we?" "That show was a real pain in my ass," he muttered.
~ Unknown
Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears
~ Louis MacNeice
over five thousand years ago, in ancient China, mercury was used to induce abortions (although it most likely also killed the women). The Ebers Papyrus from 1500 B.C. mentioned abortions. He showed a slide of a bas relief from the year 1150 decorating the temple of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, where a woman in the underworld was getting an abortion at the hands of a demon.
~ Jodi Picoult
Are you always so mistrusting?" he said, lifting a brow."When my escort is a demon, yes.
~ Unknown
Everyone fears and courts his own demon.
~ Mason Cooley
I love 'The Exorcist.'
~ David Draiman
And you're too nice, he added, above the lap-lap of the water and the patter of sand on the water-lily leaves. I was relying on you being too jealous to let that demon near the place.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sophie knew - or she thought not, until she distinctly heard the word saucepan in it several times...
~ Diana Wynne Jones
When might I expect you then? Whenever is least convenient for you, the demon replied.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
At least, I suppose I can't blame Calcifer, since he's an evil demon. But you you Michael-! I don't think I'm evil, Calcifer protested.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
This obsession was dangerous, he knew that. If anybody ever found out his reputation would be ruined, livelihood destroyed all for some hillbilly-kid with a tight ass and a talented mouth. Just a quick taste, a lick, a suck, a f**** and then he'll be cured. The demon will succumb, Richard is sure of it. He just needs to scratch this itch, quench his thirst and then things will fall back into place. He'll stop daydreaming about those eyes, that hair and that boy.
~ Unknown
Mother, they think Jason's a demon! A demon that you summoned from Urth to be my boyfriend." "Why would you need a demon boyfriend?" "Because no normal guy could survive being my boyfriend
~ Jack Campbell
In China the wind was originally regarded as a demon that caused illness
~ John M. Barry
Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.
~ Margaret Laurence
How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?
~ Shantideva
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
~ David Mallet
What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
~ Margaret Fuller
Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear. I was alone, and never free, for I carried my chains within me, and they spread out from me and shackled all I touched.
~ Margaret Laurence
He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar