Demon Quotes

• Harry Dresden: It's a place with a history, the neighbors are quiet, and my rent is cheap-though less so than it was before the demon thrashed my place.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • History
  • Demon

• In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

  

  David Boreanaz
  • Marriage
  • Unknown
  • Demon

• 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

• She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • She
  • Experience
  • Alone

• If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Can't is the word that is foe to ambition,An enemy ambushed to shatter your will;Its prey is forever the man with a missionAnd bows but to courage and patience and skill.Hate it, with hatred that's deep and undying,For once it is welcomed 'twill break any man;Whatever the goal you are seeking, keep tryingAnd answer this demon by saying: 'I can.'

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Hate
  • Forever
  • Deep

• We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

  

  Jacqueline Carey
  • May
  • Power
  • Struggle

• The Noonday Demon explores the subterranean realms of an illness which is on the point of becoming endemic, and which more than anything else mirrors the present state of our civilization and its profound discontents. As wide-ranging as it is incisive, this astonishing work is a testimony both to the muted suffering of millions and to the great courage it must have taken the author to set his mind against it.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Decision
  • Fight
  • Same

• The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Different
  • Demon

• I think he genuinely meant it. I think he really wants to do the right things to escape this demon that's got him.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Escape
  • Demon

• 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
  • Demon
  • Disability
  • Ems

• It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Hell
  • Weapons
  • Demon

• A comedian is not funny unless he is taking his demons out for a walk.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Comedian

• But you can't kill a demon because they're evil spirits, like a ghost.

  

  Jack Chick
  • Evil
  • Demon

• The only way to meet the modern demon-stration of the powers of darkness is by a demonstration of the power of God.

  

  Vance Havner
  • God
  • Power
  • Way

• 'What matters,' Sister Vigilante says, 'is, people need a monster they can believe in.' A true horrible enemy. A demon to define themselves against. Otherwise, it's just us versus us.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • Believe
  • True

• Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

  

  George Packer
  • Past
  • Imagination
  • Popular

• A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Hand
  • Poetry

• Once we were very different - our psyches constantly at war - so we struck a bargain, a spiritual compromise. We would grow more like each other, there would be a balance, but a bargain with a demon is no bargain at all. Demons cheat; it is their nature. Oh yes, I have grown more like Etrigan, and he… he too has grown more like Etrigan.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Different
  • War
  • Nature

• I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

  

  Liz Williams
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it, and singing and souls and shadows reeled out on kite strings.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Death
  • Girl
  • Singing

• It wasn't that much of a stretch to play a gay demon. I am, you know, both gay and a demon. Don't tell my wife.

  

  Ken Marino
  • Wife
  • Gay
  • Demon

• It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Time
  • Book
  • Bad

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