Demons Quotes

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.
Buddha

Yourself, Win, Cannot

Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
Lao Tzu

Human, Himself, Beings

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

Everything, Possible, Angels

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.
Ron White

Life, Times, Run

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
David Bowie

Music, Understand, Hand

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison

Black, Why, Else

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.
Demi Lovato

Creativity, Escape, Inner

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.
Matthew Fox

Evil, Racism, Healing

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.
Naomi Watts

Person, Dark, Yes

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

Life, Successful, Same

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

Time, End, Happen

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.
Patty Hearst

Hurt, Feeling, Realize

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them.
Kinky Friedman

Struggle, Conquer

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

Down, Weaknesses, Knuckle

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.
Gene Wilder

Time, God, Thought

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
Jeanne Moreau

Painful, Mysterious, Inner

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life.
Taryn Manning

Life, Respect, Angry

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.
Tommy Chong

Doubt, Give, Treat

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.
David Coverdale

Life, Past, Down

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.
Rick Springfield

Give, Thought, Searching

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!
Isabel Allende

Love, Reality, Understand

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.
George Michael

Career, America, Away

When you start becoming really successful, the demons start to tempt you - the demons of vanity and self importance, drug abuse, the feelings of fraudulence. But, it's also a thrill. That's what I found weird.
Ethan Hawke

Successful, Self, Feelings

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

Life, Family, Crisis

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.
Lionel Blue

Whether, Miracles, Physical

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

Life, Human, Dark

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
Judy Collins

Society, Fight, Down

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

Mistakes, Made, Proud

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.
Patrick Swayze

Work, Successful, Live

When you're writing you're constantly fighting demons to sit down and do what you do. If you listen to the voices outside your head, in addition to the ones inside your head, you'll never get anything done. There's enough inner strife.
Melissa Rosenberg

Writing, Done, Down

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