Demon Quotes

• My demon is hating to have to do a regular day job. Being up on stage really helps me forget I have a life like that - when I did have a life like that. I find complete contentment and happiness when I'm playing in front of an audience.

  

  Steven Barry "Lips" Kudlow Anvil
  • Hate
  • Helping
  • Forget

• But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

  

  David Gest
  • Running
  • Childhood
  • Alcohol

• The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Demon
  • Possessed
  • Fury

• 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

• 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

• Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Hope
  • Learning
  • 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

• We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

  

  Demian Bichir
  • Important
  • Evil
  • Decision

• The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Age
  • Today
  • Eyes

• Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Time
  • Hand
  • Demon

• [T]he truth is you don't need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Money
  • Truth
  • Control

• 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

• You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • God
  • Children
  • Vision

• I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • She
  • Question
  • Miracle

• We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Fighting
  • Suicide
  • Century

• Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Demon
  • Venture

• I hate jealous guys! Everyone can be jealous. We all have that in us. Push the demon down or it's going to drive the other person away.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Hate
  • Demon

• I remember the 'Checkered Demon'. He's this little devil with this three-foot dong that just porks everybody. And that wa s my idea of what sex was about. And I was, "Oh, wow! I can't wait.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Remember
  • Sex
  • Idea

• I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Problems
  • Escape
  • Verbal

• A family going through a divorce, a child under attack by a demon, all these things I could relate to.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
  • Family
  • Divorce
  • Demon

• Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Balance
  • Depression
  • Creative People

• Behold, I send the demon I know to relieve your need, An imperfect player at the perfect instrument Who takes in hand The Regulator of the World To keep the splendor from destroying us.

  

  Allen Grossman
  • Instrument
  • Demon
  • Destroying

• There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors... the list goes on and on.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Demon

• The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

  

  Agnes de Mille
  • Demon

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