Quotes About Consumption

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

To be honest, I was sometimes even jealous of those starving children in India, because nobody ever told them to finish up everything on their plate.

Point was that Poe's mother died of consumption when he was 3. He sought the image of her in several other women, including the consumption, the lingering death etc. The dying women haunt his work, dominate it (perhaps as cruel women have haunted and dominated you). Dying women arrested the living flow of his sensuality. His sensuality became necrophilic. Et puis après?

Nos actes s'attachent a nous comme sa lueur au phosphore. Ils nous consument, il est vrai, mais il nous font notre splendeur.

Je n'aime pas les hommes; j'aime ce qui les dévore.

The JD wasn't going down smooth at all. Not like good stuff should. Instead of a warm slow seeping, it seemed to be kicking its way down his throat. And the buzz felt wrong; it was coming too fast, after only a few shots, and it wasn't rounding out any of the sharp edges. It was somehow leaving everything ragged.

está lleno de colillas.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece. I don't even taste any of the other pieces, I just want to finish and throw the box away and not have to have it on my mind any more. I would rather either have it now or know I'll never have it so I don't have to think about it.

Love and death have this in common: they consume you so that everything else ceases to matter

The United States is a nation addicted to sugar. In 1890, the average American ate 10 pounds of sugar a year. Today, that figure is between 170 and 200 pounds. Unfortunately, in our society sugar is not just something that tastes good. It has also become an emotional pacifier. Refined sugar may satisfy your psychological needs for a moment, but ultimately it will destroy your body.

I guess buying food almost anywhere is more interesting than eating what comes out of your own refrigerator.

a candy and soda machine (dinner!)

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

Doesn't it bother your conscience to know that thousands of trees give up their lives just to keep you in reading matter that you dont read?

Give orange give me eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you. —NIM CHIMPSKY, 1970s Gimme gimme more, gimme more, gimme gimme more. —BRITNEY SPEARS, 2007

Tic Tacs you actually swallow, though," Esther pointed out. "You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed.

fire consumes more than it warms. In the end there will be only ashes

whole can of it last night. I think he likes it almost as much as

What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.

We have become a nation not of citizens but of consumers.

Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.