Exorcism Quotes

• You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.

  

  William Peter Blatty
  • Home
  • Blame
  • Excellent

• In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Argument
  • Beats
  • Entity

• Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Believe
  • Aviators
  • Magic Powers

• 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 Florence and the Machine
  • Music Is
  • Drums
  • Battling

• Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Book
  • Interest
  • Subjects

• Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently resolved in terms of what allowed it to be manipulated. The will must have done something to surrender to the presence of the demon. You have to resurrect the moral authority of the person's will.

  

  Bob Larson
  • Humans
  • Surrender
  • Manipulated

• Be a witness, as I excersize my exorcism.

  

  Anthony Ian Berkeley
  • Witness
  • Exorcism