Demon Quotes - Page 14

• Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

  Harville Hendrix

  Single, Responsibility, Journey

  Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Gauntlets are the stuff of every life, but when you learn young how to pick them up, how to work them against the demons, and finally how to outlast if not escape those same demons, life can seem more merciful. It's that long, smooth, false swanning through life that seems to drive a person, sooner or later, into the wall.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Wall, Long, Experience

  Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.34, Algonquin Books

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• Self is not liberated. It was never bound. What gets liberated are the demons as well as gods of your mind. Set them free. You are sick of playing with the game. Be willing to not play the game. This takes huge resolve.

  Gangaji

  Self, Games, Play

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• Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the dharma, bringing peace. It is better to conquer yourself Than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, Not by angels or by demons, Heaven or hell.

  Gautama Buddha

  Taken, Angel, Winning

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• Rock stars hawking Diet Cokes--are demons set loose on the Earth to lower the standards for the perfect & holy children of God!

  Bill Hicks

  Stars, Children, Rocks

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• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  Sam Raimi

  Imagination, Monsters, Stories

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• Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Angel, Cutting, Guardian

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Haunted”, p.95, Seal Books

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• I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

  Norton Juster

  Jobs, Effort, Monsters

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• Only in the context of the great encounter with Jesus can a real authentic struggle take place.  The encounter with Christ does not take place before, after, or beyond the struggle with our false self and its demons.  No, it is precisely in the midst of this struggle that our Lord comes to us and says, as he said to the old man in the story: ‘As soon as you turned to me again, you see I was beside you.’

  Henri Nouwen

  Jesus, Real, Struggle

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.19, HarperCollins

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• Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.

  Henri Nouwen

  Thinking, Goal, Saint

  "The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery".

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• The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Blood, Generosity, Genius

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.278, Wildside Press LLC

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• After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Book, Conversation

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• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Artist, Play, Ideas

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Exorcism, Melancholy

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• The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are made of .. Rather, the problem is to get them to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.

  Richard Lewontin

  Stars, Imagination, Intellectual

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• Theology without practice is the theology of demons

  Maximus the Confessor

  Practice, Theology

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• For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

  Charlie Bewley

  Acting, Breaking Down, About Yourself

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• People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion.

  Mary Alice

  Betrayal, Angel, Compassion

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• If Shaytan(Demon) defeated me yesterday, I will defeat him today with repentance and good deeds

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Yesterday, Deeds, Today

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• He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another

  Torii Mototada

  Overcoming, Defeat

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• I can't imagine living in a house without a couple of dogs. If I ever got out of bed at night and didn't have to step over a Labrador or two or three, or move one off the covers so I could turn over, my nights would be more restless and the demons that wait in the dark for me would be less easily fended.

  Gene Hill

  Dog, Couple, Moving

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• Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

  Gavin Extence

  Shadow, World

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• When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Writing, Fighting, Voice

  "Interview: Melissa Rosenberg On New Moon, Eclipse, And Breaking Dawn's Potential Mpaa Rating". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. April 4, 2010.

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• I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away.

  Regina Brett

  Inspirational, Prayer, Doors

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• All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Disease, Born

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