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Quotes About Demons

Writing is not a hobby. It's the only way I get to shut up the demons in my head.
~ Mark Maish
We hide our demons so good, that the angels we show, bare the shame on their faces.
~ Anthony Liccione
Still, for all that, her life had lacked passion. The demons had never come for her.
~ Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?
~ Maria V. Snyder, Poison Study
You know, prayer and d-d-demons." My mother was quiet, thinking over his statement. At last, she said, "What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? If you prefer to use those words, it's all right by me. So I make the same offer. If you like, we can meditate together on this fear you can't control." Heekin's
~ John Searles
so mean that her death would cause a thousand of Hell's toughest demons to opt for early retirement.
~ Ellen Datlow
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Still, to cease living is unacceptable. Tonight, again, I felt the darkness hindering my breathing. In my heavy, depressed sleep, I battled each demon in turn.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
I don't have any words to describe the sensations that keep me from sleep. Demons, perhaps. A sense of unworthiness so staggering that I could not keep myself upright under its weight. And yet I could not sleep.
~ barbara quick
A man ahead of his time, Oresme suggested that the source of demons and specters could be the disease of melancholy.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
If you will take the trouble to consult your dictionary, you will find that demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.
~ baum l frank iii
The subject of angels and demons really grabbed me. There is a huge mass of information, and the Bible is one of the most amazing reference points.
~ Alexandra Adornetto
Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
~ Wesley Willis
Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.
~ Ingmar Bergman
It is a curious fact that the lure of a good investment seems to haunt clergymen more persistently than any other class of man. Perhaps it is the modern equivalent of the demons in female shape who used to haunt the anchorites of the Dark Ages.
~ George Orwell
To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
~ Patrick Swayze
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done.
~ Michelle Shocked
My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
~ Xavier Dolan
Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy's mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of the bottle into his head when he tipped it back, demons that went about unloosing all the trouble they could find stashed in the catacombs of his mind. Every tragic thing that had ever happened, every self-doubt, every delusion, freed itself from bondage and revisited him when he drank.
~ Sarah Hall
pools of blood are not recreational even lifeguards drown when the undertow breaks bread with the underbelly demons disguised as sharks have not put enough thought into their costumes a wiseman stays ashore when pointed fins read like italian subtitles the end is near (...) the beginning
~ Saul Williams
Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Confining us to the comforts of a well-lit home gives our varied imaginations a chance to fill the adjacent darkness with questions and demons.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Aqueles demónios com aspecto humano, os escravocratas e comerciantes de escravos nos estados livres da América do Norte (que deveriam ser chamados de estados escravistas), são, em regra, anglicanos ortodoxos e devotos, que considerariam um grave pecado trabalhar aos domingos e que, contando com a sua obediência e com a sua ida assídua à igreja, entre outras coisas, esperam a salvação eterna.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Vi?a nov?rsa skatienu. Vi?š ar?. Pag?tnes d?moni atgriez?s, lai vi?us sag?st?tu. Lai atkal iet?tu pag?tnes vecaj?, r?tainaj? ?d? un aizvilktu atpaka? uz turieni, kur tie paties?b? mita. Kur M?lest?bas Likumi nosaka, kuru dr?kst m?l?t. Un k?. Un cik stipri.
~ Arundhati Roy
A few audacious scholars had begun to suggest that the Ramlila was really history turned into mythology, and that the evil demons were really dark-skinned Dravidians—indigenous rulers—and the Hindu gods who vanquished them (and turned them into Untouchables and other oppressed castes who would spend their lives in service of the new rulers) were the Aryan invaders.
~ Arundhati Roy