Quotes About Our Demons

#1. If there was one thing I knew, it was that our demons were what shaped who we were. The things we do, the way we act, are all driven by the things we want locked away forever.

Barbara C. Doyle

#2. We must all face our demons sooner or later.

Matt Abrams

#3. 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

#4. Each pain is Unbearable / yet Trifling
Seeing the TRUTH is Excruciating / yet Exquisite
Through Laugher & Tears / Grinning & Fear, we face our demons.

Jay Woodman

#5. We all have our demons, it is not anyone else's duty to validate them.

Sara Secora

#6. We all have our demons.

Jim Butcher

#7. We don't need to face our demons, we only need to face reality.

Marty Rubin

#8. Our demons, they have a way of becoming self-fulfilling.

Eliot Pattison

#9. We all have our demons. When we finally learn to let them go, we get to live and be free.

Jodie Sweetin

#10. We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

Michelle Moran

#11. Our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.

Isabel Allende

#12. We all have our demons, but if we can get our demons to play nice with someone else's, well, that makes life worth living.

Teresa Mummert

#13. this burden weighs so heavily
when our demons we must carry
clinging to this fleeting breath
dying for a fighting chance

The Phantoms

#14. I think we all have our demons and our various shortcomings, and it would be nice if people felt more gently about other people, but also about themselves.

Michelle Huneven

#15. In real life, love and hate are often only separable if we're willing to recognize our demons and choose to become better people.

John L. Monk

#16. It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

Andrew Sean Greer

#17. When face to face with our demons our destiny is in reach.

David W. Earle

#18. The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.

Barack Obama

#19. We Black people cannot outrun our demons. Nor should we ever want to. We will embrace them as our lost Beloveds, and listen to the songs they sing to bring us through the darkness. - Walidah

Walidah Imarisha

#20. Our demons are friends,

Tan Redding

#21. We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls.

Susan Fletcher

#22. Sobriety isn't for cowards, Chief Inspector. Whatever you might think of an alcoholic, to get sober, really sober demands great honesty, and that demands great courage. Stopping drinking's the easy part. Then we have to face ourselves. Our demons. How many people are willing to do that?

Louise Penny

#23. I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself.

Ted Dekker

#24. We all have our demons, I just happen to exorcise mine by writing them out.

Sai Marie Johnson

#25. 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

#26. We all have our demons, and every once in a while, we have to dance with them, embrace them.

Autumn Grey

#27. God's Word is our only reliable source of truth about Satan and demons.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#28. Our faith can grow big enough to move a mountain. Jesus said, "These signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons ... they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover" (Mark 16:17-18).

Stormie O'martian

#29. We have our own personal demons to deal with.

Daniel Lewis

#30. [Judaism is] ever ... mighty in wickedness ... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord ... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.

Hilary Of Poitiers

#31. We are all Gods or Demons- exerting the energy of will to squeeze the anarchic creativity of nature into our own image.

John Constantine

#32. But these days the demons are more insidious; they're the everyday annoyances, the little things that suck away our potential to do big things.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#33. We had a secret knowledge that demons couldn't fathom. They saw love as a weakness, but they were wrong. Love would keep us going, love was our strength.

Wendy Higgins

#34. The only angels we need invoke are those of our better nature: reason, honesty, and love. The only demons we must fear are those that lurk inside every human mind: ignorance, hatred, greed, and faith, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.

Sam Harris

#35. Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he'd been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.

Pippa DaCosta

#36. The Reckoning
The time has come for Retribution
A time for Redemption, A time for Forgiveness
A time for Renewal, A time to prevail
My love will set you free my darling.
Our love, forever bound.
-SL Ross

S.L. Ross

#37. We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down. By fighting and taming the demons that laid them low and now reside in us.

Bruce Springsteen

#38. '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.

Honeysuckle Weeks

#39. We are not at war (except with our own demons).

Jeffrey Sachs

#40. Are we talking hell hounds and flames here?" Des asked, pacing at the end of our beds.
I repeated the question and gave a heaving sigh of relief when Jameson said I had the wrong idea.
"He's going to 'lead us into temptation.'"
"That doesn't sound so bad," Des said with a cheeky grin.

Terri Clark

#41. We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons ...

Martin Luther

#42. 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.

Glenn Beck

#43. Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Henry Timrod

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

Peter Criss

#45. When we come out of agreement with lies and have our minds renewed to the truth, demons can be removed. Once we've found a person who is willing to be set free, the demons we are shown can be dealt with.

Praying Medic

#46. Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.

Siegfried Sassoon

#47. Gods are but greater demons," the Cishaurim said, "hungers across the surface of eternity, wanting only to taste the clarity of our souls. Can you not see this?

R. Scott Bakker

#48. 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

#49. There is a festival where we wear the faces of demons to ward evil spirits from our dead in the vale. Sometimes we
fail.

Pierce Brown

#50. It was guarded by a few demons, but most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall back down and hit them, but no one says demons are too bright)

Rick Riordan

#51. The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.

Slade Combs

#52. When the resistance is gone, so are the demons. It's like a koan that we can work with by learning how to be more gentle, how to relax, and how to surrender to the situations and people in our lives.

Pema Chodron

#53. We all have to fight our own demons some are smaller than others, but they're still demons just the same.

Olivia Snow

#54. 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

#55. None of us ever really grow up into the adults we seem on the outside do we Jack. We all carry our childhood demons forever.

Dylan Jones

#56. Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

John Noble

#57. 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

#58. Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

Pema Chodron

#59. Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons.

Harville Hendrix

#60. 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

#61. For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither the present nor the future nor any powers neither height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38

Anonymous

#62. 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

#63. It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness.

David O. McKay

#64. Along our chosen paths, we all meet up with demons. We must meet them, and battle them, even when they are nothing but mist in the night.

Heather Graham

#65. 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

#66. Demons live in all of us. There's only one difference between Luptators and humans- it's our ability to control them.

Tyler Watkins

#67. In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons. The

C. G. Jung

#68. no beasts of darkness, no demons from beyond the realms of death will hold us back. If we have to tarnish our swords with the blood of a thousand goblins, we go on!

David A. Riley

#69. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

Tonya Hurley

#70. While the larger white society lives in terror of liberated Blackness, of the "demons" unleashed coming after them, we know many of our spirits haunt us out of love, out of a desire for all that was unfairly stolen from them.

Walidah Imarisha

#71. Is that your reason for fighting?! We're different!!! We fight for the sake of our injured friends!!! No matter if our opponents are humans, demons, or even gods!!!

Hiro Mashima

#72. 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.

Wolfgang Petersen

#73. My enemies can soar into the night like invisible demons, conjure wolf creatures from hell, and read minds. On our side is a god that can lead a man to a ferry!

David Gemmell

#74. It also reminds me that true power comes not from submission or gain, but from controlling my inner demons. Because our true enemies live within ourselves and feed from the lessons we failed to learn from our pasts.

J.C. Reed

#75. First, you must be certain that you are ready for knowledge. There are many things that we bury in our minds for a reason. Are you sure that you want to go digging up the past?"- Elsie (Marked Book #1) page 226

A.N. Meade

#76. Remember these Romans, Hannibal. For the time being, we must ally with them. But the day will come when we will have our vengeance upon them, as we will upon the demons of Harappa. Never forget that."

The boy's voice was grave. "I'll remember.

Jennifer McKeithen

#77. I have been thinking about the idea of excuses for some time now. They are like menacing demons that creep into our lives without us knowing. They are roadblocks, white lies to ourselves, a reason to set the bar lower, and self-justification for achieving less than our full potential.

Lorii Myers

#78. Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

Rick Riordan

#79. The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny ...

Mick Rock

#80. Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#81. We all have our inner demons.

Glenn Beck

#82. 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.

Katherine McNamara

#83. There are demons upon this earth. They live in our hearts and minds.

A.G. Riddle

#84. We are our own gods and our own demons

Sergei Lukyanenko

#85. No matter what storms come our way, we'll endure them. Together. Because our love is strong and unflappable. Love destroys demons and obliterates broken pasts. Love is ours - finally - and we fucking earned it.

K. Webster

#86. When I was small I dreamed of demons. I thought they were under my bed, but you said, it can't be so, you don't get demons our side of the river, the guards won't let them over London Bridge.

Hilary Mantel

#87. Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

Dan Brown

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. 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.

Jodi Picoult

#91. 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

#92. Some of the hardest battles we fight are those against the demons of our past, over which we have no control.

Charles F. Glassman

#93. Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain

Nikhil Kushwaha

#94. Welcome back to Personal Demons." Megan said into the microphone. "Our next caller is Regina. Hi, Regina, how can I slay your personal demons?"
The words tasted like shame.

Stacia Kane

#95. Our souls may be consumed by shadows, but that doesn't mean we have to behave as monsters.

Emm Cole

#96. Ah hon, we all have our own demons to fight, guardians or not.

C.K. Dawn

#97. 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.

Sara Zarr

#98. If you believe the Bible is true, you ought to know that demons are real. The Bible is filled with references of evil and demons, and Christ repeatedly cast out demons, so I believe the universe is much more complex and mysterious than it may appear to our senses.

D.L. Koontz

#99. The ninth king died in the night. Before his son could be crowned the next morning, the Gentle Lord, the prince of demons, descended upon the castle. In one hour of fire and wrath he killed the prince and rent the castle stone from stone. And then he dictated to us the new terms of our existence.

Rosamund Hodge

#100. More often than not, the demons of our nature love a recluse; nobody is more vulnerable to himself than the solitary. To imagine that one can simply withdraw, and somehow achieve peace, or wisdom, or detachment, is a mistake. It is also, in most cases, inappropriate, selfish, and even cowardly.

John Burnside