Demon Quotes - Page 3

• I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.

  Joe Flanigan

  Fighting, Ideas, Guy

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• Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Depth, Aspiration

  Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley (1961). “The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion”

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• A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Moon, Age

  "Kubla Khan" l. 12 (1816)

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• If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Husband, Nice, Caring

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• I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world

  Gustave Flaubert

  Brother, Horse, Angel

  Gustave Flaubert (1991). “Early Writings”, p.147, U of Nebraska Press

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• Music, I think, is best when it honestly explores personal demons, and it stirs around in the silt of the psyche to find out what's really there.

  Tom Morello

  Thinking, Personal Demons, Honestly

  "Tom Morello on solo album, politics and racism". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 29, 2011.

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• ...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Paine “The Writings of Thomas Paine”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Long, Dining, Spoons

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• You look at the world and see how scary it can be sometimes and still try to deal with the fear. Comedy can deal with the fear and still not paralyze you or tell you that it's going away. You say, OK, you got certain choices here, you can laugh at them and then once you've laughed at them and you have expunged the demon, now you can deal with them. That's what I do when I do my act.

  Robin Williams

  Laughing, Choices, Scary

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• Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.236, A&C Black

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• I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sharks, Denver, Panthers

  "The Heat-Seeking Panther" by Dana Stevens, www.slate.com. July 22, 2010.

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• You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one - I can't speak for you, but I'm on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

  Glenn Beck

  Inner Demons, Moral, Speak

  "Glenn Beck Program", November 6, 2006.

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• The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it.

  Vincent de Paul

  Christian, Powerful, Humility

  "A Year with the Saints" by P. J. Kenedy, (p. 47), 1891.

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• Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Book, Thinking, Dust

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Marriage, Writing, Acceptance

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• Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

  Dan Brown

  Terrorism, Angels And Demons, Robert Langdon

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die.

  George Ryan

  Errors, Guilt, Death Penalty

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• Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

  Megan Martha White

  Dwarves, Cities, Red Lipstick

  "What's eating Jack?". Interview with Andrew Perry, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2004.

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• If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.

  Carl Sagan

  Country, Children, Teaching

  "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, ch. 25: "Real Patriots Ask Questions", 1995.

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• In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

  David Coverdale

  Couple, Past, Thinking

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• We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Children, Teaching

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.434, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Reading, Fighting, Artist

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• I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

  Tanith Lee

  Strong, Writing, Men

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• I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  Pain, Hate, Believe

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• As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Use, Actors, Want

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