Quotes about demon
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“Aline: "He's cute, for a Downworlder"
Sebastian: "You'll have to forgive her; she has the face of an angel and the manners of a Moloch demon”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Angels, Forgiveness

“I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after it's born."

'Cause face it, horns on the head didn't come from my side of the family or genetic code.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

Family

“Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?"
"You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

Books, Reading

“Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself… It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”

Harper Lee (1926–2016) American author

“My demon ate them. (Nick)
What happened to the jocks? (Acheron)
Riiiight. And I suppose the Big Bad Wolf will be coming in right behind you to finish up? Or is it the Gingerbread Man I need to fear? (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Fear, Wolf

“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 (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist

Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen

God, Happiness, Secret, Way

“No, really," I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?”

Patricia Briggs book Night Broken

Source: Night Broken

Hell

“Release the demon under promise that I'd be repaid handsomely, my enemies destroyed? Hmm, where had I seen this before? Oh, right. Every demon horror movie ever made. And the horror part started right after the releasing part.”

Kelley Armstrong The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Parting

“Let me get this straight. First you decide I'm a demon because of a power I didn't ask for and don't even understand. Then when that falls through you label me a fallen sybil and a ho. Am I missing something or do you just not like me”

Karen Chance book Touch the Dark

Source: Touch the Dark

Understanding

“Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?"
"Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy. That and he's killed more demons than anyone else his age.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Age

“Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Understanding, Silence

“First, the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order." -Jace Wayland”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Variant: It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.
Source: City of Bones

Flowers

“What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Those who betray me only do so once. ~Malkom Slaine (Demon From the Dark)”

Kresley Cole American writer

“Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.”

Jürgen Moltmann (1926) German Reformed theologian

World, Nature

“I don't want to be a man. 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 book City of Ashes

Jace to Clary, pg. 45
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

People

“For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

Way

“Maybe that's all demons ever are. People like us, doing things without even knowing what we're doing.”

Orson Scott Card book Pathfinder

Source: Pathfinder

People

“Now Bella, you know Jacob adores you. He naturally wants to protect you. He literally worships the ground you walk on."

"Ha ha," Bella said dryly. "Earth demon. Worship the ground. Cute. Really cute.”

Jacquelyn Frank (1968) writer

Source: Gideon

Nature

“You're crazy, you know that?"
"Yes. But I'm a demon in the sack."
I laughed. "Okay then. That fixes everything."
"That's right, it does.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

“Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Blues

Truth

“The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying”

Darren Shan book Lord Loss

Source: Lord Loss

Girl

“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, which is surely the devil's masterpiece.”

Sam Harris (1967) American author, philosopher and neuroscientist

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Love, Fear, Angels, Nature

“The answer is no, I would rather marry the Demon King himself than marry you. I
suggest you look elsewhere for a bride. And heaven help the one you choose.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Gray Wolf Throne

Help

“This is not some silly game… This is life and death Angels and demons.”

Melissa de la Cruz (1971) American writer

Life, Death, Angels, Game

“Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt, leaving a good deal of his left shoulder bare.
"The shirt? At Macy's Winter sale.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Winter

“You see demons in the eyes of the world, and the world sees a bottomless pit in yours.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Challenger Deep

World

“Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in -
Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“You’re not a morning person, are you? (Simone)
I’m a Dream-Hunter/demon. By my very nature I’m nocturnal. That big yellow ball in the sky offends me to the very core of my being. (Xypher)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

Dreams, Nature, Personality

“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 (1977) Japanese manga artist

God, Fight

“Normal people dont generally find their homes ransacked by demons.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People, Home

“Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

God

“There is nothing to fear except the power you give to your own demons.”

Sally Gardner book The Red Necklace

Source: The Red Necklace

Fear

“From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The path of light is laid, the sacred test,
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.”

Dan Brown book Angels & Demons

Source: Angels & Demons

Angels, Light

“Will spread his arms wide. On his knees, grinning like a demon, blood dripping from his mouth, he barely looked human himself. “Come and get me.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t
know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder
why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or
steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Business

“What happens in the demon realms stays in the demon realms,” said Jace.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain,
To prove that demon pox warps the brain.
So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain
That the pox-ridden worm was slain:
For to believe in me, you all must deign.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Behavior

“Yes," said Will, "you two don't seem to have much in common, save for a penchant for demon women and evil.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Women, Evil

“When she played her music even the night demons stopped their work & it took them some time to remember what it was they were doing & the best of them had no stomach for it for a long time after that.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Music, Time, Night

“Frowning, she looked up. "You can't want to ravish me every time we meet."
Oh, yes, he could. Demon gritted his teeth…”

Stephanie Laurens (1943) Australian writer

Source: A Rogue's Proposal

Time

“I thought it'd be something cooler, like a van with 'Death to Demons' painted on the outside, or...”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Simon to Jace, pg. 132
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Death, Painting

“We both believe in monsters. But all the ghosts and demons are you. And all the angels and genies are you. All the kings, queens, Buddhas, beautiful boys. Inside you. No one can take them away. (Missing Angel Juan.)”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Beauty, Angels, Boy

“I have always had the ability to attach my demons to my chariot. And they have been forced to make themselves useful.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

Source: Images: My Life in Film

“I follow after my father, who likes to protect mankind, and I really don’t want to see a bunch of demons eating people. Call me sentimental. (Kat)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

People

“The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

Life, Pain

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Business

“I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box…”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Past, Box

“There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.”

Carrie Fisher (1956–2016) American actress, screenwriter and novelist

“Mercy," he said,"in a fair fight between near equals, I'll back you every time. It's the demons, vampires, and river devils I worry about, and I'm working on that.”

Patricia Briggs book River Marked

Source: River Marked

Time, Fight

“Conclusion 2:
There's nothing more demonic than two bored twins.
~Signed Tamaki”

Bisco Hatori (1975) Japanese manga artist

Source: Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 2

“Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Quoted on the web sans source. Not in the complete Poems. A 2006 self-help book attributes it verbatim to Dave Sim (see below) sans source. A 2009 reprint of Poems: Second Series mentions it in the introduction sans source (thus probably taking it from the unsourced web quote). No earlier attributions found.
Compare to a quote sourced to Dave Sim: "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." (Cerebus #65, 1984)
Misattributed

Time

“Lothaire betrayed us! Again.” -Random demon.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior