Personal Demons Quotes

• Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Home, Remember, Demon

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 22, 2014

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• Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.

  Kent Nerburn

  Dad, Father, Heart

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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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• Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

  Kent Nerburn

  Fathers Day, Heart, Son

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.21, New World Library

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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, Demon, Honestly

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

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• I stop fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now. T-shirt

  Darynda Jones

  Fighting, Inner Demons, Sides

  Darynda Jones (2011). “Second Grave on the Left”, p.101, Macmillan

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• Everyday the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. Should I lie on the couch and watch a movie, or shuld I confront my personal demons?

  Jill Davis

  Lying, Opportunity, Things In Life

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• Look at Picasso. O’Neill. Tennessee Williams. Capote. Were these shiny happy people spreading sunshine? No. Only the greatest of personal demons can force you to do powerful work.

  Marisha Pessl

  Powerful, Sunshine, People

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• This one's like that because it's about these things that I think weigh heavily on me in terms of my own failings and the things that I worry about and my personal demons. Is the sum of my personal demons greater than the things that I like about myself? Is this moment - because it's a particulary high tension, scary moment for all of us in terms of the global climate - going to bring out the best or the worst in us?

  Scott Snyder

  Thinking, Worry, Scary

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

  Zach Anner

  Ems, Disability, Demon

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

  Michael K. Williams

  Achievement, Alive, Way

  "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.

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• Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.

  Honeysuckle Weeks

  Country, War, People

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• Occasionally, there arises a writing situation where you see an alternative to what you are doing, a mad, wild gamble of a way for handling something, which may leave you looking stupid, ridiculous or brilliant -you just don't know which. You can play it safe there, too, and proceed along the route you'd mapped out for yourself. Or you can trust your personal demon who delivered that crazy idea in the first place. Trust your demon.

  Roger Zelazny

  Crazy, Stupid, Writing

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