Quotes About Devour

In man there is implanted a sporting instinct to side with the underdog, but this is in man, the individual. Mob psychology is different from individual psychology, and the psychology of the pack is to tear down the weaker and devour the wounded. Man may sympathize with the underdog, but he wants to side with the winner.

Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.

Integration my undead ass. Did they teach you about the Great American Melting Pot in grade school?" she asked. "Some of us don't like the idea of being melted down and blended into stew for the rest of you to devour.

Don't just read a book. Eat it!

Imagination has been the companion of my whole existence lively, swift, restless, at times timid and balky, most often ready to devour plain upon plain in its course.

I ate you up. All my need took you down like a meal.

Yo escribo. Es mi mayor victoria, mi conquista, el don del que me siento más orgullosa; y aunque las palabras están siendo devoradas por el gran silencio, hoy constituyen mi única arma

How many hours of human labor will be devoured today, by an imaginary God?

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

I read books as though I were eating apples, core and all, starved for those pages, hungry for every word that told me about things I didn't yet have, but still wanted terribly, wanted until it hurt.

The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

I'm a fry lover.

She is always starving for new books to gobble

His mind was clear. Physically he seemed better too. It was as if, out of an ultimate contamination he had derived strength. He felt free to devour what remained of his life in peace.

the coffeemaker in his hotel room is a hungry little mollusk, snapping open its jaws to devour pods and subsequently secreting coffee into a mug.

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

I loved it…I simply ate it up.

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.

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

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.