Quotes About Demons

I knew then that they had been men, neither gods nor demons. It is a great knowledge, hard to tell and believe. They were men they went a dark road, but they were men. I have been in the Place of the Gods and seen it! Now slay me, if it is the law but still I know they were men.

The subterranean lair of the wily human relationship: a dark maze of pop-up demons, fun house mirrors, spooky dead ends, multiple false bottoms.

Sometimes I think there's someone up there just sitting around thinking of ways to make me look like a complete moron. Seriously, I bet there's an angel—or, more likely, a demon—assigned just to me. And every day it gets up and asks itself what it can do to ruin my life. Well, today it got an A plus.

But, hey. Out of all the demons I have met, she is my favorite by, like, infinity.

I just want to build the set for the show and be secretly in love with Ryan and not have to fight demons.

When you go into the desert you meet your demons face-to-face. After coming out of the desert, all those demons become angels.

De la misma manera en que las distintas sociedades y religiones de todo el mundo han creado una mitología increíble, nosotros creamos la nuestra. Nuestra mitología personal está poblada de héroes y villanos, ángeles y demonios, reyes y plebeyos.

When the history of the earth enters a very critical period, as at present, the myths, gods and demons that direct us, the Archetypes, come to take an even more active part, becoming almost visible to many. They participate directly in the combat, as happened in the last world war, of cosmic resonance.

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart.I want to recognize your beauty's not just a mask.I want to exorcise the demons from your past.I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart.

But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires.

Interesting. But you must realize that our lack of religion is in itself anathema to the minds of zealots. They refer to us as atheists, godless demons. Humans love to engage in name calling, since it enables them to categorize an adversary... which invariably involves dehumanizing an opponent. In our case, dear Omnius, the dehumanization was accomplished from the outset.

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us—then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls. The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

So in an age when traditional religions have been under withering fire from science, is it not natural to wrap up the old gods and demons in scientific raiment and call them aliens?

Los demonios venden; los bromistas son aburridos y de mal gusto.

Plato, Socrates' most celebrated student, assigned a high role to demons: "No human nature invested with supreme power is able to order human affairs," he said, "and not overflow with insolence and wrong Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

Humans were still possessed of the same weaknesses that had brought about their destruction in the old days. Theirs was a race destined to be short-lived. They would find new ways to destroy themselves or to enable the demons and their servants to destroy them.

It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.

I don't hold with paddlin' with the occult, said Granny firmly. Once you start paddlin' with the occult you start believing in spirits, and when you start believing in spirits you start believing in demons, and then before you know where you are you're believing in gods. And then you're in trouble. But all them things exist, said Nanny Ogg. That's no call to go around believing in them. It only encourages 'em.

Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.

Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage

As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.* * The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact.

Demons have existed on the Discworld for at least as long as the gods, who in many ways they closely resemble. The difference is basically the same as that between terrorists and freedom fighters.

You trust him? he said. No, said Hastur. Right, said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.