Quotes About Devour

Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.

Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.

Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.

Later, much later, as an adult woman, she wrote of her need to be loved, to be desired, as a ravenous monster with an exigent appetite living in a black hole within. Whatever love was thrown her way, the monster devoured it and left her with nothing.

I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.

I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

A budget reserve is to contractors as red meat is to lions, and they will devour it.

Oldendorf's fleet would hold its position astride the northern end of the strait and devour Nishimura's column like a log thrust into the business end of a U.S. Navy wood chipper.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul.

Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new colors. Someone—was it van Gogh?—said that orange is the color of insanity. Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it... We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.

The untoward incident cast a certain gloom over the breakfast table, though Wimsey, who felt his sides clapping together like an empty portmanteau, was only too happy to devour his eggs and bacon and coffee in peace.

Those men ate like food had just been invented

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Power just makes you reject destiny and devour your fate.

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

I read like fiends smoke crack