Demon
A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology.
One's genius; a tutelary spirit or internal voice; as, the demon of Socrates.
An evil spirit; a devil.
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Demon Quotations
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Dickinson
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald
The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de Mille
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
Margaret Fuller
I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
Nicolas Cage
Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
Meg White
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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
It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.
Terry Prachett
Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?
Benny Hinn
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
Dustin Hoffman
But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.
David Gest
I think the media is a real demon.
George Michael
Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?
George Ryan
The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
Galeazzo Ciano
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
Paul Bailey
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
David Mallet
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Demon Translations
demon in Dutch is demon, duivel
demon in Italian is demonio
demon in Spanish is demonio
demon in Swedish is demon, ond ande
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