Demon Quotes - Page 3

• Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

  Lionel Blue

  Miracle, Casting, Birth

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• For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Recovery, Fighting

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• Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

  Matthew Fox

  Women, Angel, Healing

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• One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

  William James

  Forgiveness, Heart, Wrestling

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.132, Harvard University Press

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• The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

  George MacDonald

  Health, Exercise, Appreciate

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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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• The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

  Agnes de Mille

  Passion, Creativity, Creative

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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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• Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

  Henry Timrod

  Dream, Heart, Secret

  Henry Timrod (2007). “The Collected Poems of Henry Timrod: A Variorum Edition”, p.38, University of Georgia Press

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• The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Men, Stories, Want

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• We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Fighting, Criminals

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• I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting.

  Michael Irvin

  Sports, Fighting, Boys

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• The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Angel, Madness, Rage

  A. A. Attanasio, Jeff Bigman (2011). “The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot, Volume One”, p.103, A. A. Attanasio

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• The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

  William Peter Blatty

  Powerful, Liars, Lying

  William Peter Blatty (2015). “William Peter Blatty on "The Exorcist": From Novel to Screen”, p.355, Macmillan

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• It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.

  Corey Feldman

  Flower, Mystery, Heroin

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

  David Bowie

  Hands, Awakening, Ghost

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• Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

  Paul Bailey

  Writing, Agents, Artistic

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• Here I swear, and as I break my oath may ... eternity blast me, here I swear that never will I forgive Christianity! It is the only point on which I allow myself to encourage revenge... Oh, how I wish I were the Antichrist, that it were mine to crush the Demon; to hurl him to his native Hell never to rise again - I expect to gratify some of this insatiable feeling in Poetry.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Crush, Revenge, Feelings

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1964). “Shelley in England”

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• And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

  Patty Hearst

  Hurt, Feelings, Faces

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• I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.

  Toni Morrison

  Smile, People, Annoyed

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.256, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

  Terry Pratchett

  Prayer, Fate, Evil

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

  Carlos Santana

  Knuckles, Weakness

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• We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving, Hatred, May

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• Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

  Dan Brown

  Hero, Dark, Light

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.448, Simon and Schuster

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