Incubus Quotes

• Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Sleep, Light

  Thomas Carlyle (1876). “The Carlyle Anthology”, p.253

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• I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

  Brandon Boyd

  Made, Illegal

  "Morning View". Studio album by Incubus, October 23, 2001.

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• Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

  Rachel Perry

  Hot

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• The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

  Brandon Boyd

  Girl, Bars, Want

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• A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.

  Kami Garcia

  Moon, Rivers, Tears

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2013). “Beautiful Creatures 4 - Udfriet”, p.259, Lindhardt og Ringhof

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• I love everything, but I really love rock music. Incubus, Augustana, Nirvana, Chevelle, iHi-Hi-Fi, they're my really good friends.

  Audrina Patridge

  Good Friend, Rocks, Rock Music

  Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. May 8, 2008.

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• Well, if the excitement's over, I think I'll take a bath.' 'Wow. The harsh lifestyle of a succubus. I wish I had your job.' 'Hey, our side's always recruiting. You might need to be a little prettier to be an incubus, though. And a little more charming.' 'Untrue. Mortal women go for jerks. I see it all the time.' 'Touché.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Thinking, Wish

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• In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.

  Francis Parkman

  Europe, Shadow, World

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.33, Library of America

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• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Dream, Country, Heart

  "O'Connell Correspondence, Vol IV". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Letter to Bishop Doyle (N. 1860), 1831.

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• I'd love to cover an 'Incubus' song. I don't think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I'd love to be the first.

  Dustin Lynch

  Love, Country, Song

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• I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

  Brandon Boyd

  Play, Effort, Band

  "Incubus front man Brandon Boyd true to his art". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2009.

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• Women love a sick child or a healthy animal; A man who is both itches them like an incubus.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Children, Animal, Men

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• We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

  Mark Hopkins

  Philosophy, Giving, Mind

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136

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