Demons Quotes
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Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable.
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You have to search the absolute demons of your soul to make a great record.
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We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
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My singing silenced the bullies, but better than that, it silenced the demons inside me. When you're jeered at, told to shut up, sit still, stop being silly, there's a cacophony of noise rolling around in your head. When I was singing, it was peaceful.
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Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.
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Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.
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But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.
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Schizophrenia demons live in my head.
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The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
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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.
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Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.
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He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.
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I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.
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Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)
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“Why do demons wish to excite in us gluttony, fornication, greed, anger, rancor and other passions? So that the mind, under their weight, should be unable to pray as it ought; for when the passions of our irrational part begin to act, they prevent the mind from acting rationally.”
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Demons are like obedient dogs; they come when they are called.
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If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.
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Playwright August Wilson said, "To live it life as an artist is to be willing to face the deepest parts of yourself. To wrestle with your demons until your spirit becomes larger and larger and your demons smaller and smaller.
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Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.
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I have my own demons, my own pain and darkness, but I choose to embrace them and look at them head-on and deal with them. Then it doesn't hurt, and you learn from it.
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I try not to put my purse on the floor - demons will get into it.
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Our demons, they have a way of becoming self-fulfilling.
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It was too hard, too messy, too complicated. I sort of lived in a self-imposed exile for a good many years. I went away to college, lived my own life, chased my dreams, tried to face some demons. I guess I thought I could do all those things on my won. I thought that because I was gay, my family, well, they'd hate me or they wouldn't understand me or they'd send me away. So I just sent myself away. It was easier for me to pretend that I didn't belong to a family. I tried to pretend I didn't belong to anyone
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When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
