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Quotes About Demons

He popped his jaw, trying to relax against a new onslaught of aggression. It wasn't as if he were the only one to suffer, he reminded himself. The other warriors had their own demons—literally and figuratively. Torin, of course, was keeper of Disease. Lucien was keeper of Death. Reyes, of Pain. Aeron, of Wrath. Paris, of Promiscuity. Why couldn't he have been given that last one?
~ Gena Showalter
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.
~ Gene Wilder
Wild were his dreams, and oft he rose in fright,Waked by his view of horrors in the night,—Horrors that would the sternest minds amaze,Horrors that demons might be proud to raise:And though he felt forsaken, grieved at heart,To think he lived from all mankind apart,Yet, if a man approached, in terrors he would start.
~ George Crabbe
It couldn't be real. People summoned monsters from the arcane realm, but I'd never heard of anyone summoning actual demons. Yet it was right there, living, breathing, real, and every instinct I had howled and clawed at my logic.
~ Ilona Andrews
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather it is we who turn them into ghosts or demons. Some kinds of fruitless preoccupations with the past can create such simulacra, and they can exercise power, like those heroes at Troy fighting for a phantom Helen.
~ Iris Murdoch
white magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
~ Iris Murdoch
We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.
~ Iris Murdoch
This is an age of demons and amoral angels and all sorts of deep fears, like the first centuries of the Christian era, it's an age of extreme solutions.
~ Iris Murdoch
He had for many years now been spared the demons, though he was constantly aware of their continued presence. He could hear them, as it were, moving behind the wall. They belonged to him and would doubtless go with him to the grave. His mind too, like David's, ran irresistibly to the horror.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps his demons were quite other.
~ Iris Murdoch
our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.
~ Isabel Allende
Todos tenemos demonios en los rincones oscuros del alma, pero si los sacamos a la luz, los demonios se achican, se debilitan, se callan y al fin nos dejan en paz.
~ Isabel Allende
know what helps most in misfortune, Irina? To talk. Nobody can go around in this world all alone. Why do you think I set up the pain clinic? Because shared pain is more bearable. The clinic is useful for the patients but is even more useful to me. We all have demons in the dark recesses of our soul, but if we bring them out into the light, they grow smaller and weaker, they fall silent and eventually leave us in peace." Irina tried to free herself from the tentacle-like
~ Isabel Allende
We all have demons in the dark recesses of our soul, but if we bring them out into the light, they grow smaller and weaker, they fall silent and eventually leave us in peace.
~ Isabel Allende
los demonios pierden su poder cuando los sacamos de las profundidades donde se esconden y los miramos de frente en plena luz
~ Isabel Allende
America and its demons, Europe and its ghosts.
~ Le Monde
I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don't want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.
~ John Fogerty
Demons, chaos, dragons - all of them are different incarnations and representations of our idea of death in 'Dark Souls.'
~ Hidetaka Miyazaki
You're the angel that my demons beg to make fall. The pureness and light that my darkness wants to extinguish.
~ Harper Sloan, Locke
In real life, love and hate are often only separable if we're willing to recognize our demons and choose to become better people.
~ John L. Monk, Kick
Even demons can fall in love.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
Don't want a complicated love. Just want you to grab my demons, kiss my madness and run away with me.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
There's no doubt in my mind that he wants this and that he loves you, Sam, but sometimes even the strongest feelings in our hearts can't silence the demons in our head.
~ Beth Rinyu, Easy Silence