Demon Quotes

• There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.

  Sally Gardner

  Giving

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• There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

  Carrie Fisher

  Self, Rooms, Possessed

  Twitter post from May 05, 2014

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• Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

  Brom

  Fear, Men

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• Drift is the demon of democracy.

  Anthony Eden

  Democracy

  Anthony Eden (Earl of Avon) (1960). “The Eden Memoirs”

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• Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

  Wesley Willis

  Schizophrenia

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• Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.

  Tori Amos

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Frightening

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• All you have is your fire
  And the place you need to reach
  Don't you ever tame your demons
  But always keep them on a leash

  Hozier

  Fire, Needs, Leashes

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• I face my demons and embrace my fate.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Fate, Destiny, Faces

  Lynda Bellingham (2014). “Lost and Found: My Story”, p.317, Random House

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• Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

  August Wilson

  Strength, Pain, Angel

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• Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

  August Wilson

  Inspirational, Strength, Forgiveness

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• The love of power is the demon of mankind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupidity, Desire For Power, Mankind

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Soul, Body, Flight

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.35, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Betrayal, Angel, Satanic

  Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

  Anne Rice

  Thinking, Mad, Hell

  Anne Rice (1997). “Memnoch the Devil”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• The madness of demons is rage - the madness of angels - hope.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Angel, Madness, Rage

  A. A. Attanasio, Jeff Bigman (2011). “The Dragon and the Unicorn: The Perilous Order of Camelot, Volume One”, p.103, A. A. Attanasio

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• The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

  Darren Shan

  Girl, Scary, Wells

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• Hope is a demon worse than your Pain.

  Gena Showalter

  Pain

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Pleasure”, p.122, HQN Books

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• You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.

  Kinky Friedman

  Struggle, Conquer

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• The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

  Carl Sagan

  Light, Flames, Darkness

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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

  Emily Dickinson

  Done, Literature, Littles

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

  Agnes de Mille

  Passion, Creativity, Creative

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Honesty, Successful

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon... They become our legendary heroes.

  Carl Jung

  Hero, Creative, Legendary

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• An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

  William Faulkner

  Inspiring, Art, Wonder

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

  John Bingham

  Past, Voice, Giving

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