Top 133 Demons Quotes

To be honest, I’ve made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we’re either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

It’s just amazing to see that when you get over your own inner demons or jealousies you have, it’s amazing to see what can come of it.

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don’t want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home.

I’ve been writing books because it’s been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that’s been long overdue.

I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don’t really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes.

You face your demons doing Bikram. You challenge them, beat them.

The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David‘s story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea.

Everybody fights demons. Some are worse than others.

But yeah, I don’t think you can conquer demons.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

I think I need the demons in order to write, but the demons have gone. It bothers me a lot. I’ve tried and tried, but I just can’t seem to find a melody.

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they’re making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

It was a combination of typecasting and my own demons. There are roles I could have gotten, but there were just lots of opportunities that I just blew on my own.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

You do have demons throughout the week; every coach does.

In any dispute, each side thinks it’s in the right and the other side is demons.

For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.

Buffy’s very similar to me to me when I was growing up. A child in an adult world, sort of trapped between the two. Does Buffy go to the prom or does she save the world from demons?

I don’t know that all the demons have been beaten, but I’m very, very proud of those songs.

My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college.

A lot of times on our show, ‘Shadowhunters,’ we have excuses to dawn some kind of sexy black leather attire under the excuse that we’re going to fight demons, but it’s all part of the tone of the piece and the tone of the story.

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.

My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.

‘Foyle’s War’ made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

What I really like to do is write ‘genre‘ stories without a cartoonish element. I did the same with ‘Da Vinci’s Demons,’ and I’ll do the same with ‘Man of Steel.’

What I’m dealing with in ‘Hellboy’ is a lot different, bigger in a certain way. It’s very Shakespearean. It’s demons and witches and stuff like that. But it has a similar core to a dude who’s trapped in horrible circumstances who’s just trying to be a good guy.

I miss my mother very much. She was a very sweet and wonderful lady. She had demons she was battling with. Some of her demons were stronger than she would have liked for them to be. She had her flaws just like anything other humans do, but we still stayed in touch and we loved each other very much.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I’d love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

There aren’t demons flying around with horns, people are demons.

I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of ‘Da Vinci’s Demons,’ and not just because my boyfriend is in it!

My uncles used to call me ‘Devil Child,’ or ‘Triple’ for triple six. They used to tell my brother Chris that they were going to get the demons out of him because he was also a little crazy. But to me, they’d just be like, ‘You’re too far gone. There’s no exorcising you anymore.’

The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

In the last couple of years I’ve been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It’s something I think I’ll be doing for the rest of my life.

My mother fed my love of demons, science fiction, and paranormal. She was a devout horror movie fan who kept me up until the wee hours to watch ‘Outer Limits,’ ‘Night Gallery,’ ‘Twilight Zone,’ and ‘Star Trek.’ We lived to watch those reruns.

There were dozens of people who walked through the Holy Land claiming to be the Messiah, curing the sick, exorcising demons, challenging Rome, gathering followers. In a way, there’s nothing unique about what Jesus did. In fact, many of these so-called false Messiahs we know by name.

I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one’s perfect, and we’re all fighting our own private demons.

It’s kind of appropriate to me that Batman is still a part of the ‘Justice League Dark’ story. I think it would be strange if any of the other ‘Justice League’ characters were involved in putting together this kind of motley crew of dead people and mediums and ghosts and demons and phantoms.

I’d love to go back to the U.S. Open, where it sort of all came crashing down for me in 2012, and sort of conquer that place. And by conquer, I mean just get back out on the court there. I have a lot of demons from that place.

I did ‘Echo Beach,’ a surfing drama that meant I was often topless. Next came ‘Demons,’ and the opening sequence had me in my boxer shorts; and then there was a scene in ‘Trinity‘ with me walking around in boxer shorts. It was only one scene in each series.

In the last couple of years I’ve been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It’s something I think I’ll be doing for the rest of my life.

We try so hard to block out negative or dark thoughts, but sometimes embracing your demons is the most vitalizing thing you can do.

I think the traditional explanation is that demons just find someone, they pick on them and try to break down their spirit so they can… take control of their bodies. Why exactly? I don’t know.

Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.

My dad was a wonderful, wonderful person. Sadly, he had some demons. There is a silver lining in all of that. You live and learn, and it has brought my family closer together, so I’m grateful for that.

I think Bond the character is distinct: He’s British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he’s incorruptible… he’s a classical hero, but he’s also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he’s a romantic.

I just think demons are terribly interesting! In Sumerian times, demons weren’t seen as evil at all, just as incredibly powerful and very different from us: beings made of fire, when humans were made of earth.

You’re always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn’t – it just helps you recognize your demons.

I never thought of it as God. I didn’t know what to call it. I don’t believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

I read a lot of the battle that goes on between the ufologists, you know, the ones who think that UFOs are aliens, and the people who think that UFOs are demons. They battle with each other, and sometimes I interject comments, every now and then. Not as myself, but under another moniker.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

As you get older and you hopefully battle your own demons, you find other reasons why you want to be an actor. The people that I truly admire do this because they love telling stories and they love the make-believe of the moment and not so much the gratification afterwards.

At the end of the day, we’re all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We’re haunted by our particular demons.

Everyone has monsters and demons within themselves. They’re metaphors for the human condition.

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

You don’t need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

Everyone has got demons and stuff they’re dealing with.

In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there’s a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.

I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don’t know what demons drove him.

I try not to put my purse on the floor – demons will get into it.

And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can’t hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.

I feel like I’ve put my demons behind me.

Humility is a good estate; founded thereon, the whole spiritual edifice grows into a holy temple in the Lord. Through humility, some have even possessed the gates of their enemies. For which of the virtues is so mighty to subdue the pride of demons and the tyranny of men?

I lived a full life but I had to battle my demons.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

I’m not this dark, twisted person. Yes, I have my demons and this is my way of exorcising them. It gets them out – and better out than in.

When I was younger, I found it incredibly intimidating to audition for anything. As I’ve gotten older and had more experience and gained more confidence in myself, I’m able to quiet some of those demons a little more successfully.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn’t save you from things; he saves you through them.

I grew up watching ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘ and used to dream that I would grow up to be just like her. In a way, ‘Teen Wolf‘ has a lot of those kinds of characters. We’re just kids by day, and yet we’re trying to fight demons and werewolves and bad people and save people that we love.

May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons – and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off – and how will you ever get control of them again!

Demons manifest themselves in people in different ways. For instance, out of nowhere, somebody can become very angry for no reason. That’s not just an emotion. That’s a demon.

If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.

We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.

I feel I’m able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won’t have to live through it, I guess.

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I’ve never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took – of being vulnerable.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

Carter Hall is a cross between Indiana Jones and Robert Langdon from ‘Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels and Demons.’

We like Batman – we understand him, we suffer with him. On the other hand, we want to be Superman. But they’re conflicting philosophies. Let’s bring them together in one movie and see how we, as an audience, wrestle with our inner demons.

Don’t be scared to look for help. Depression is real… It’s crazy, and all these guys, us athletes, that keep thinking we’re superheroes. I like to think I’m a superhero, but superheroes got to fight their demons, too, sometimes.

Jake ‘The Snake,’ getting the chance to talk to him all day and just picking his brain – you know, he has his demons, but he’s an intelligent person, and he knows the business like no other.

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life – the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man – I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad.

I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of ‘Da Vinci’s Demons,’ and not just because my boyfriend is in it!

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at ‘The Times.’

Instead of yelling and screaming or losing myself all the time, I release everything in my music, and that’s kind of how I expel my demons, as you would say.

Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

You’re always fighting the demons.

We’re products of this world we were born into. We all battle our own demons. Everyone is troubled in the dark, but, please just stop & think about the babies. They’re gonna be here long after we leave.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

Gelsey Kirkland has had more than her share of demons, as her two distressing memoirs – and her violently checkered career – attest.

Inner demons? Got none of them.

Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.

Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can’t stop them.

People can change, learn, and grow, and it’s better to face your demons instead of perpetually running away from them.

I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it’s the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It’s upsetting.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one – I can’t speak for you, but I’m on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

I don’t check for Sean Hannity or Bill O’Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don’t wake me up in the morning. I don’t care about them, and they certainly don’t drive the conversations I’m thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.

I still have to work on my weight and some of my other demons.

Let me be clear: neither I nor ‘Angels & Demons’ are anti-Catholic.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I’m not really a sequel guy. I did ‘Angels & Demons’ after ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ because I like working with Hanks, and I felt it was a really different sort of world that we were visiting. That was, of itself, interesting.

One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that’s when the demons come and can drag you down.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about scary demons, but I think that there are things in this world that are unexplainable that are mystical or paranormal. The possibility is there, definitely.

I have my own demons, but I assure you that they are not about a corrupt mind abusing the trust and confidence that my constituents have placed in me.

Writing about my life was a 13-year process where I had to face my demons as I wrote and take the time to understand them, then defeat them.

We’re much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.

I have my own demons and dark moods. It’s weird.

I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.

Like a lot of people, I’ve often wondered what else I might have been. When I was younger, but even after I was a child, I thought Batman was the whole package. Smart, calculating, pragmatic. Depressed, but in a way women found hot. Tragic at his core and struggling with his demons while trying to save the world.

There is nothing incompatible about laughter and demons, nor about athletic achievement and depression. Mike Flanagan made me laugh, too. But mostly, he made me brave.

It’s kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it’s educated me a little bit more.

We all have our inner demons.

Rafael Nadal, I see no demons in him. None. Unless he picks up the racket with his right hand.

You know, we all have our inner demons. I, for one – I can’t speak for you, but I’m on the verge of moral collapse at any time. It can happen by the end of the show.

Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He’s without conflict, he’s too far along on his journey toward enlightenment to be a good protagonist. Our protagonists have to be struggling with demons in a certain way.

Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being ‘Get Out,’ is about race and neglect and marginalization.

Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she’s a brilliant businesswoman. She’s also somebody who’s overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that’s really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

I’d seen Titus Welliver in a few shows and felt he had some inner demons in his portrayals, as does Harry Bosch.

In a book, you can create a world in your imagination that’s as intricate as you want. Even something like ‘Angels & Demons.’ I was reading it, thinking, ‘This is incredible! This is so scary!’

I have not seen ‘It’ because I don’t like horror movies. I don’t mess with clowns or demons.

At the end of the day, we’re all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.