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Quotes About Devouring

Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
I've come back to you for a reason, Mother of Dragons-mistress of worms and serpents, from the smallest crawlers that renew the loam to the world-girding monster devouring his own tail.
~ Elizabeth Bear
How could I ever love anything else, once having been loved of thee? I can't comprehend thy logic, Father of lies. Both ends against the middle. Like a two-headed serpent devouring itself. Christ. What canst thou hope maintain?" Lucifer smiled only and into the sadness of that smile Kit knew the answer. "Oh. For the love of God.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I have bathed in the PoemOf the Sea…Devouring the green azures.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I don't remember which writer of antiquity it is who speaks of an Old Woman-Devil, armed with a double set of teeth, one in her mouth, the other in her sex. . . . What is the meaning of the vulva-with-teeth if not the devouring nonengendering principle of the woman?
~ Augusto Roa Bastos
There are so many shows I've had such grand intentions of devouring but not found the time, or not given them a chance if I wasn't hooked quickly enough, despite rave reviews.
~ Vick Hope
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
~ Jonathan Swift
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.
~ Eric Hoffer
We know that immediately upon entering the monastery, Luther was lent one that was bound in red leather, for he recollected this often in his later years. It seems that Luther did not receive the book lightly, for he not only read it but almost devoured it. He read it over and over until he was inordinately and perhaps even peculiarly familiar with it. This would of course have everything to do with the events of his future and the future itself.
~ Eric Metaxas
chewing and gulping.
~ Erin Hunter
I have the greatest job in the world, and my life revolves around my love for food - particularly devouring hot dogs.
~ Joey Chestnut
Eventually I fall asleep, savoring the melancholy pleasures of victory. I wake with a start to a muffled sound: the wolves could not wait for us to withdraw; they are already devouring the bodies.
~ Shan Sa
She read like a woman drinks water after nearly dying of dehydration.
~ Shannon Hale
Beware, lion's lady, for your predator is hungry tonight. He may not wait long before devouring you." "Devouring me?" she asked, challenge gleaming in her eyes. "What if I devour him first?
~ Shelly Thacker, Forever His
Su locura, su idea, estaba allí, en aquella cabeza obstinada, torturante, devoradora. Se comía el cuerpo poco a poco. Ella la invisible, la impalpable, la inalcanzable, la inmaterial idea minaba la carne, bebía la sangre, apagaba la vida
~ Guy de Maupassant
Beware, lion's lady, for your predator is hungry tonight. He may not wait long before devouring you." "Devouring me?" she asked, challenge gleaming in her eyes. "What if I devour him first?
~ Shelly Thacker
And books -- she swallows like dumplings.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Die Krebszellen waren Menschen in Kleinausgabe. Alles fressen, was ihnen in den Weg kommt, ohne Rücksicht auf Verluste, auch in Kauf nehmend, vor lauter Gier, dass irgendwann der Wirt nicht mehr ist.
~ Sibylle Berg
Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.
~ William Shakespeare
slime eel, a primitive creature with five hearts and no eyes that bores its way inside fish, devouring them from within
~ Susan Casey
She read voraciously, devouring a dog-eared copy of The Handmaid's Tale it one sleepless night.
~ Susan Wiggs
They ate like trash compactors with feet.
~ Harlan Coben
There's a void inside me, a blank that's slowly expanding, devouring what's left of who I am. I can hear it happening. I'm totally lost, my identity dying.
~ Haruki Murakami