Quotes About Consumption

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

Nowadays, the tendency to be preoccupied with having, at the expense of losing touch with the dimension of being, is becoming ever more pronounced. In times such as ours, when secular and material values dominate social and cultural life to an extreme degree, the intensity of the urge to have creates an ever widening gulf from the awareness of who and what we are.

His heart lifted to a state approaching something like happiness, however, when he heard, unexpectedly, the sound of Rhea's low sweet voice humming gently to herself as she came up the slope towards the mountaintop. Loveliest sister and dearest wife! It was quite natural that she had been a little upset by his consumption of their six children, but she surely understood that he had had no choice. She was a Titan, she knew about duty and destiny.

El calentamiento global es causado por todos nosotros: queremos coches, viajes y un mejor nivel de vida.

Roland could not understand why anyone would want cocaine or any other illegal drug, for that matter, in a world where such a powerful one as sugar was so plentiful and cheap.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

I am eternal. I am the Eater of Worlds.

Because in America, you could have anything you wanted, just as long as you could pay for it. If you couldn't pay, or refused to pay, you would remain needful for ever.

The body of the last Flealouse contained the flesh of everything that had ever lived. It was content.

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

And this I know; whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the temple lost outright.

Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.

The next time you feel like complaining, remember that your garbage disposal probably eats better than 30 percent of the people in the world

In fact, in an overwhelmingly commodified existence, consumption becomes the number one form of entertainment.

By now you should know not to eat the GMO -Johnny The Walker

There was only so much news you could digest in one day.

Department stores were a depressing no-no, as I no longer felt able to spend money.

The other was, simply, that I didn't really have an appetite for spending.

If I let myself love you, it would consume me. There would be nothing but you. I would be constantly afraid that you might change your mind. And then, if you did, I would die.

The only thing that bottled orange juice has going for it, is its attractive colour.

We have learned to eat like snakes. When there is something to eat - we eat enough to last for a week. When there is nothing - we don't eat. Now, when we get our food supply, we eat it all, right there, we leave nothing for tomorrow. Like the birds. And then we read our books. We go after spiritual food...

In related ways, 24/7 is inseparable from environmental catastrophe in its declaration of permanent expenditure, of endless wastefulness for its sustenance, in its terminal disruption of the cycles and seasons on which ecological integrity depends.

Death, in many guises, is one of the by-products of neoliberalism: when people have nothing further that can be taken from them, whether resources or labor or power, they are quite simply disposable.

There are now very few significant interludes of human existence (with the colossal exception of sleep) that have not been penetrated and taken over as work time, consumption time, or marketing time.