Quotes About Consumed

Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle wreath, Love is a sword that cuts its sheath, And thro' the clefts, itself has made, We spy the flashes of the Blade! But thro' the clefts, itself has made, We likewise see Love's flashing blade, By rust consumed or snapt in twain: And only Hilt and Stump remain. - Song

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker…. Labor is the only source of wealth. There is no other source, except land, the raw material….Every bit of capital that exists was made by labor, just as everything that is consumed is.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

Miranda looked up at him through a haze of desire, her will consumed by a fierce crackling heat, just like the dry twigs of the old woman's fire.

I got caught up with gambling at the golf course, the backroom card games at the casinos with buddies there, and eventually betting on sporting events. I think it became a situation where I got consumed by it and loved every minute of it.

Reason is imprisoned here, and passions run wild. Like the fires of the prairie, once lighted, they are at the mercy of every wind, and must burn, till they have consumed all that is combustible within their remorseless grasp.

They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.

It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured.

We are all burning in time, but each is consumed at his own speed.

It can hit at any time [anxiety/panic attack]. You feel like you're in an open field, and there's a tornado coming at you. And you're just consumed by it.

Your cigarette has become one long cylindrical ash.

I wanted darkness. To hide from her and the feelings that welled up in me, and the great consuming fear that I was utterly inadequate to make her happy, or to make myself happy by pleasing her.

A man is ruled by appetite and remorse, and I swallowed what I could.

They were deep within the world, and its hungry latticework structure had consumed the available light.

Having reclaimed the world's neural networks and integrated the memories of the splintered angels she'd consumed, she had access-finally-to an enormous database of useful information.

Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.

When I read, I'm purely a reader.

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

entire churches can be consumed with the demonic drama that proceeds from one tongue speaking on behalf of a bitter heart.

The mindfulness rage was just another distraction, he said. Of course we should be stressed, he said. We should be utterly consumed with dread. Mindful meditation might help a person face drowning with equanimity, but it would do absolutely nothing to right the Titanic, he said.

I cannot place the luxury of thought towards tomorrow as I am consumed by living for today.

It is not in mere sport that Paris has been called a hell. Take the phrase for truth. There all is smoke and fire, everything gleams, crackles, flames, evaporates, dies out, then lights up again, with shooting sparks, and is consumed.

Entirety exists within me as exuberance. Only in empty longing, only in an unlucky desire to be consumed simply be the desire to burn with desire, is entirety wholly what it is.