Demon Quotes

• Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Time
  • Done
  • Demon

• Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience; and casts light into the cavern through which he worked his cause up to the cheerful day.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Up
  • God
  • Experience

• When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Long
  • You
  • Spoon

• It was far in the sameness of the wood; I was running with joy on the Demon's trail, Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

  

  Robert Frost
  • God
  • True
  • Running

• I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

  

  Oliver Sykes Bring Me the Horizon
  • Knows
  • Demon
  • Swim

• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Body

• I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • Time
  • God
  • Believe

• Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Live
  • Power

• When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

  

  Denis O'Hare
  • Reading
  • Demon

• And the cloud that took the form(When the rest of Heaven was blue)Of a demon in my view.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Rest
  • Heaven
  • Blue

• I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Healthy
  • Angel
  • Compromise

• Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Demon
  • Casting
  • Exorcise

• The real demon in my life is my father.

  

  David Lagercrantz
  • Life
  • Real
  • Father

• 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
  • Work
  • Wisdom
  • Sick

• 'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Work
  • Demon

• Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.

  

  David Mallet
  • Soul
  • Support
  • Demon

• I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene 1979. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.

  

  Roger Alan Painter Christian Death
  • Together
  • Serious
  • Realizing

• 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
  • People
  • Believe
  • Hate

• I've got many, many demons that affect me on many, many levels.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Levels
  • Demon

• Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • World
  • She
  • Truth

• I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Up
  • Song
  • Night

• I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Sleep
  • Imagination
  • Partner

• Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Demon

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