Quotes About Self-consumption

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth inordinately and turning it around over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is my way of seeing the end of the world.

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Mother of otherness, Eat me. --from Poem for a Birthday - Who, written 1960

I don't have anything to nourish me: I eat myself

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