Exorcism Quotes

• You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.

  William Peter Blatty

  Home, Places To Go, Blame

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• There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

  Art Spiegelman

  Stuff, Shapes, Aspect

  "Art Spiegelman on 'Breakdowns' Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey" by Rebecca Milzoff, New York magazine, October 8, 2008.

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• Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Feelings, Way

  "Bret Easton Ellis: 'So you're a misogynist, a racist - so what? Does it make your art less interesting?'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2010.

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• He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

  T. S. Eliot

  Names, Faces, Firsts

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• Performing an exorcism was like changing your oil. It's a drag, but necessary.

  Keanu Reeves

  Oil, Drag, Performing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.

  Otto Dix

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• In exorcism, a verbal argument can never do anything. You can't ever beat the entity in a verbal argument because that's what he wants. It's only through a confront, a non-verbal confront, that anything happens. It has to be non-verbal.

  William S. Burroughs

  Want, Argument, Beats

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Evil, Baptism

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• Be a witness, as I excersize my exorcism

  Anthony Ian Berkeley

  Rap, Witness

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• Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

  Eli Roth

  Real, Doe, Culture

  "Filmmaker Eli Roth returns for another 'Last Exorcism'". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. February 28, 2013.

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• I think music should be scary.
  Music is an exorcism.

  Florence Welch

  Thinking, Scary, Should

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• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  Damon Hill

  Sports, Taken, Athlete

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• And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

  Liam Neeson

  Mind, Pace, Execution

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• Photography is our exorcism. Primitive society had its masks, bourgeois society its mirrors. We have our images.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Photography, Mirrors, Mask

  Jean Baudrillard, Peter Weibel (1999). “Fotografien”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Self, Salt

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• Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, Salt, Please

  "All Harper Lee wanted was to be 'the Jane Austen of South Alabama' - here's how she accomplished that and so much more" by Rachel Gillett, www.businessinsider.com. February 20, 2016.

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• I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give Pain a body, a representation, to put it outside himself. A need to convert inner torment into some outward tangible wound that all could see. It was almost as though suicide were a last-ditch effort at exorcism, in which the person sacrificed his life in order that the devil inside might die.

  Phillip Lopate

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Taken, Fighting, Artist

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.96, Modern Library

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• The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have a personal sanctity. He can be exposed to dangerous behavior and personal threat. His prayers often cause a violent response as he attempts to shine a beam of light into the darkness.

  Gabriele Amorth

  Prayer, Light, Shining

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house ; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

  Shirley Jackson

  Kindness, People, House

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.37, Penguin

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• The music is so euphoric,as a way of battling the words. It’s like an exorcism, beating it out with drums, shake this demon out, it’s so visceral because the melancholy has to be drummed out. I can’t let it sit inside me.

  Florence Welch

  Way, Demon, Melancholy

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• If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

  Jenny Han

  Love Is, Letters, Possession

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• To me, the scariest movie ever made to this day is The Exorcist. It still scares the living hell out of me, and it’s because of the fantasy element. It’s the exorcism. It’s the Devil. It’s not a guy breaking into your house trying to torture you or cut your whatever off. Those kinds of movies don’t do it for me, and I don’t call them horror.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Cutting, Guy, House

  "In the Halloween Queen’s Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson". Interview with Dan Lybarger, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• One of the things people don't know about exorcism, is that you can't really use exorcism on things that are older than Christianity.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  People, Use, Christianity

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Shamanism, Interest

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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