“Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: No Mercy
Source: Sunsets
“Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: No Mercy
“You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Dark Side of the Moon
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
Variant: When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) Polish writer
"Conversation with a Stone"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
Tim Hurson (1946) Creativity theorist, author and speaker
Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking
“The younger generation will come knocking at my door.”
Henrik Ibsen The Master Builder
Solness, Act I
The Master Builder (1892)
“You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
"The Gift of Water" Ch. 18 : The Three Fish, p. 200
The Essential Rumi (1995)
“No one laughs at God when the cops knock on their door
And they say "We've got some bad news, sir."”
Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist
Far (2009)