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Quotes About Demons

Circles of this sort, called mandalas, are widely used for meditation in the Buddhist tradition. Often they are cornered by four demons who evidently, like the Occidental lion, bull, angel and eagle, represent the extremes to be avoided.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Why, the man killed over two hundred demons with this sword. They say it is charmed such that whomever wields it cannot be killed by a demon." "How did he die?" "Knifed by an exotic dancer.
~ Robert Asprin
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Perspective was a luxury when your head was constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
~ Khaled Hosseini
La perspectiva es un lujo que sólo pueden permitirse las mentes que no están atormentadas por un enjambre de demonios.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Piss on my daisies, we have to save the demons!
~ Kim Harrison
I thought about all the times I had brought in black witches, pitying them for their foolishness, telling myself demons were dangerous, manipulating bastards who you couldn't beat. But I wasn't trying to beat them, I was trying to join them…apparently.
~ Kim Harrison
It's said that the reason the elves and demons began their war is because of a broken alliance," he said, the world-weary damage to his face making him look wise. "I've always found it to be true—that the best of friends make the bitterest of enemies. Elves and demons, forever fighting. Who is to say that demons weren't the slaves of elves first?
~ Kim Harrison
Demons are coming, Vivian. They're finding ways around the rules. The genetic checks and balances have been broken, and the demon genome is going to repair itself. We're going to become who we were. Maybe not this generation, maybe not the next, but when it happens, the witches can either be ready, or they can be pixies being eaten by giant birds.
~ Kim Harrison
She was fighting armies of demons which swirled through her mind and there was no way i could cross over into her nightmares and fight alongside her and bring her back.
~ Kiran Nagarkar
I'm surprised he hasn't been sniffing around you," [Deshazior] said. "Demons love Valkyrie." "Ah, but do Valkyrie love demons?" "Aye. 'Cause we're the only ones ye won't kill in bed-sport.
~ Kresley Cole
Gods, she was as exquisite as her scent— Wham! The demons tackled him with the force of a freight train, flattening him on the field, piling on top of him.
~ Kresley Cole
He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels
~ Henri Michaux
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
~ Taryn Manning
I can see from that glint in your bleary eyes you want to light your second cigar of the evening and summon a few demons. Oh don't deny it... don't deny it... like all people who feel uncomfortable in an uncomfortable world you want to make a map. Well let me tell you it is difficult to make a map in splintered times when whole worlds and histories collide.
~ Deborah Levy
Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree and Jesus wrestling with demons in the desert are symbolic of the same drama of the soul that you were born to repeat.
~ Deepak Chopra
Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.
~ Denzel Washington
Dancing with your demons to win them can be a risky proposal, unless you're a person of strong Character. It's quite possible that your demons may transform you into a demon before you realize. If you keep on gazing into an empty bottomless darkness, there's a good chance that darkness will gaze back at you. Your best bet is to walk away from your demons, and take the high road where demons fear to tread.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Saints are not allowed to lie, not even to demons.
~ Eoin Colfer
If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels. —Tennessee Williams
~ Erica Jong
Perhaps the need to believe in demons is, in itself, the last resort of a mind desperate to project its evils outward.
~ Erica Jong
Did she really think her sojourns back to Adamant were going to finally earn his love and approval? After all these years? That's not why I'm here. She'd come home, because the demons that had to be confronted were here. The evil that had to be vanquished... was right here in this house.
~ Amanda Stevens
Both of you"—and the incriminating finger made an inclusive little circle—"rest, sleep, confront your demons gently, and fall in love in ways nobody will expect.
~ Amy Lane
Have we not seen many times indeed human beings who, poor and naked, prostrate themselves before all the phantoms of fear, and rather than follow the teaching of well-disposed demons, obey the commandments of cruel demiurges?
~ Anatole France