Top 83 Own Demons Quotes
#1. 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.
Xavier Dolan
#2. You're a fine young man, even if you have your own demons. We all do.
Kami Garcia
#3. You're a bully and I know you don't care, but I just thought you should know that I think you're scum. He's probably some miserable kid with his own demons and he doesn't need yours.
Melina Marchetta
#4. I'd rather face mythological creatures or prarnormal beings then to deal with my own demons. Nothing's scarier than being alone with your thoughts.Fuck the bump in the night BS, it's the silence that does it for me.
Amanda Rose
#5. She searched for a possible escape route should she need one and spied the paper skeleton immediately behind her and shrieked for the second time. Who needed ghosts to haunt a house when one could form his own demons out of paper?
Charlie N. Holmberg
#6. Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.
Steven Pressfield
#8. I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'
Jayson Blair
#9. There was a lot of sorrow in [Johnny] Cash's life. Even while he's trying to make music to inspire people he's fighting day after day with his own demons and sorrows.
Robert Hilburn
#10. 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.
Eric Balfour
#11. You is judgmental. With time, she will experience enough shit to free her own demons.
A.S. King
#13. Ah hon, we all have our own demons to fight, guardians or not.
C.K. Dawn
#14. It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world.
Joseph Campbell
#15. Those who were afraid of the dark and always refused to throw themselves inside it. Never got to see and feel how beautiful it is, to meet and greet one's own demons.
Akshay Vasu
#17. He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another
Torii Mototada
#18. I love the idea of playing a good guy who's fighting his own demons.
Joe Flanigan
#19. All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within.
Paul Levine
#20. It wasn't necessary to know your own demons in order to find God.
Paulo Coelho
#21. It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
Ed Helms
#22. Never worry about the negative in others, for you cannot change what you don't control, conquer your own demons and be happy.
A.M. Sawyer
#23. We are not at war (except with our own demons).
Jeffrey Sachs
#24. I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird.
Chris Rock
#25. Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.
Jodi Picoult
#26. There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.
Sally Gardner
#27. We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.
Teresa Medeiros
#28. I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Michael Bergin
#29. We all have to fight our own demons some are smaller than others, but they're still demons just the same.
Olivia Snow
#30. Don't set out to make a scary movie and then flinch every time you're supposed to scare somebody because you're afraid of being MPAA or you're afraid of your own demons or whatever.
Andrew Bryniarski
#31. It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.
Jeannette Walls
#32. Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.
Pema Chodron
#33. We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.
Peter Criss
#35. If the demons lie within they travel with you.
Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.
Chuck Palahniuk
#37. 1Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, + 2speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
Anonymous
#38. Kim's gripe with humans was nothing new. She, like the rest of the Guardians, put her life on the line every time she faced demons and was entitles to her own opinion. Sometimes I wish she would tall in love with a human. That would shut her up.
P.C. Cast
#39. Lochedus couldn't help feeling a little proud of himself, though he knew pride to be a slippery slope. He felt he was holding his own in the verbal sparring match with Beladona - not an easy thing to do.
Lisa C. Temple
#40. What's this? (Fang)
One for all and all for fun, my friend. You didn't think I'd let you fight demons all on your own, did you? (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#41. I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead."
"Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.
Cassandra Clare
#42. Don't settle, Genevieve. Don't let strangers grope you on dance floors. Don't allow college boys to fondle you in doorways. Don't waver in uncertainty about your own desires....Know what you want. Endeavor to seize it, and keep it when you do.
Juliette Cross
#43. He had no right to look so accommodating when I knew the sort of man he really was; the sort who sacrificed his own son in the name of science, the sort who used his daughter to entrap a Prince of Hell. I'd known demons more human than Adam Harper.
Pippa DaCosta
#44. The demons exist. If they don't find you, you create your own. Fear is there. It never fades. But know that you never have to be alone. Never doubt yourself, just because everyone else doesn't understand. There's an entire kingdom out there. Hold on to that image. Be
Michael J. Seidlinger
#45. Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
Truman Capote
#46. Are you afraid a demon has escaped Hell in order to descend upon the Venetians?"
"I think there are a few who'd deserve it, but I'm also a man of science, and I believe that we all carry our own private infernos inside ourselves."
-Conversation between Majid and Mathias
Riccardo Bruni
#47. 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.
Rebecca Ferguson
#48. Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. "Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension -
Cassandra Clare
#50. He knew his vampire 'sisters' would drain the girls until they were nearly dead, then feed them some of their own blood. That's when the turning would start - as vampire and human blood mixed - and the parched agony of the Dark Kiss began.
Alan Kinross
#51. The perplexity, the potential - God's own crucible was not for angels.
Johnny Worthen
#52. You came here of your own free will, Claire. I won't be denied. You're mine now, and I intend to keep you.
H.D. Smith
#53. 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
#54. Love was such a delicate thing, requiring tissue-paper touch and the safest place, yet there it was out in the real world, where it got battered by storms of ill will and bad circumstances and demons of your own or of other people. Love didn't stand a chance.
Deb Caletti
#55. There are humans versus humans in a jungle of predators; humans full of judgment, full of blame, full of guilt, full of emotional poison - envy, anger, hate, sadness, suffering. We create all these little demons in our mind because we have learned to dream hell in our own life.
Miguel Ruiz
#56. The problem isn't that you haven't run far or fast enough. The problem is that you run at all. You must stop, amore, and face your demons. It is time for you to take your life into your own control and put these things down for good. That is how you will be free.
Ashly L. Evans
#57. If mankind is to have a new beginning among the stars, it will not come cheaply, for we are our own enemy and bring our demons with us as we have done throughout history.
Jay Allan
#58. The shadow demons (fears) you've been avoiding keep you stuck in a rut, a prisoner in your own life - it's time to break free and shine!
Sharon Kirstin
#59. The realest and scariest monsters are internal demons, the specters of regret and guilt and lack of fulfillment, awareness of the entropic end of love, or the first shivers occasioned by the realization of our own ageing, and the eventual inevitability of death.
Michael Marshall Smith
#60. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Scott Snyder
#61. We have our own personal demons to deal with.
Daniel Lewis
#62. But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.
Adeline Yen Mah
#63. I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.
Whitley Strieber
#64. We are all Gods or Demons- exerting the energy of will to squeeze the anarchic creativity of nature into our own image.
John Constantine
#65. I hate when people say, "Oh, you're just a teenager," or "It's hormonal." It's like, if a woman is agitated one day, people go, "Oh, she's on her period." That's such garbage. I think I was dealing with a combination of my own inner demons and resentment toward my parents from my earlier days.
Katy Rose
#66. A hand in mine.. hot. Breath on my neck ... sweet. The feel of lips on my own ... forbidden.
Christine Fonseca
#67. The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
Michael K. Williams
#68. Funny, that we always told stories with wolves and beasts and demons as villains, but in real life it seemed the humans were always the worst enemies. You could be your own villain.
Liesl Shurtliff
#69. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.
Cassandra Clare
#70. Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit ... each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.
Joseph Campbell
#71. I would find a way to save souls while eradicating demons from this world. I'd find a way to save my own soul. I just had to.
Emily Chaucer.
Demon executioner.
Human savior.
I could only hope.
Ketley Allison
#72. Evil" is an inverted anagram of "live." As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a good, pure, humble, courageous, patient heart.
Angelica Hopes
#73. 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.
Glenn Beck
#74. Thank you Robin Williams for showing the world that one man can make a difference in the lives of millions, while still fighting his own personal demons. You are missed, but never forgotten.
Steven Wolff
#75. AMONG THE DEMONS that taunt a writer before he can open a vein and write in his own blood are the devils that whisper: Are you brave enough to tell the truth?
Francine Prose
#76. She was evil. Couldn't he, who killed demons with his own hands, realize that? And now I had to run for Mardi Gras Queen because of him. Or her. I didn't know whose fault it was but there was no way I could back down now.
Jenna-Lynne Duncan
#77. Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.
Terry Pratchett
#78. Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.
Wes Nisker
#79. I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!
Garth Stein
#80. Ironic, is it not, that the great Divinicus Nex cowers in fear from that which should be her fated prey? A decidedly diametric circumstance.
What? It's irritating when the monster hunting you has a better vocabulary than your own. Maybe it could do my eulogy?
A&E Kirk
#81. Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
Chuck Palahniuk
#82. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, and desires and the demons that distract us from these goals. Outside of our control are such things as what kind of body we have, whether or not we are born into wealth, and how we are regarded by others.
Epictetus
#83. Demons were said to be cruel, but a demon would never have been so brutal as this. A demon merely called you by name, threw his arms around you, whispered his plight, understood yours, then took you for his own.
Alice Hoffman
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