Quotes About Consumption

as modern people, we have too much to live with and too little to live for.

I don't know about life," he replied, "but the world's nothing but sex and greed.

Cannibalism alone unites us. Socially. Economically. Philosophically.

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

for the time being I gave up writing-there is already too much truth in the world-an overproduction which apparently cannot be consumed!

After a little time they all began to smoke, the Pearl included, though she threw away much more of her cigar than she consumed

Only in 1795 did the Royal Navy heed decades of advice and begin enforcing the consumption of lime juice on its ships (giving rise to the term "limey").

I think that anyone who eats meat should visit a slaughterhouse at least once in their life, just to see what goes on. It's a bloody, filthy, putrid f**king business.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

I continue to work with the materials I have, the materials I am made of. With feelings, beings, books, events, and battles, I am omnivorous. I would like to swallow the whole earth. I would like to drink the whole sea.

They watched the rain and downed their Cokes like a pair of diabetics in a suicide pact.

There's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of plastic with an instruction packet on the top.

Instantly sixty little hands grabbed at sixty sandwiches, which were stuffed down sixty throats in under sixty seconds.

Like all collectors, I exist in a perpetual state of want that bears no reasonable relationship to the quantity of unread books mounting up on my shelves.

My sort wants the book in its entirety. We need to touch it, to examine the weight of its paper and the way text is laid out on the page. People like me open books and inhale the binding, favoring the scents of certain glues over others, breathing them in like incense even as the chemicals poison our brains. We consume them.

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldnt spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit. We went down that path once, and it brought us to ruin.

L'écrivain est le langage qui se dévore lui-même dans l'homme dévoré par le mentir qui en fait le noyau.

When a milestone is conquered, the subtle erosion called entitlement begins its consuming grind. The team regards its greatness as a trait and a right. Half hearted effort becomes habit and saps a champion.

We have chosen a problematic name for ourselves: we are no longer souls as we once were, not even citizens; we're all consumers now, grasping all the stuff every which way.

we shopped and we shopped and we shopped, and now we're dying for a drink." She glanced at me. "From the look of you, you suffer from no such problem.

War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

Some thing had eaten all the perfect soap she'd made. It dared come here, into the proper place for soap, and eat it all. She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self inside-out and backward, then fell into a crack and lost its name and died alone and hollow-empty in the angry dark.

El objetivo de sus cacerías era poseer todo cuanto el mundo le pudiera ofrecer … y la única condición que ponía era que fuesen nuevos.