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Quotes About Devour

the blind fools, they devoured the cattle of the Sun and the Sungod blotted out the day of their return.
~ Homer
I will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrow…" "That's nice," Kate said. "The shield.
~ Ilona Andrews
Cousin, there is very little I truly believe. Beyond the oxymoronic fact that supposedly intelligent people seem to revel in being stupid. For this, I blame the chaotic tumult of emotions that devour reason as water devours snow.
~ Steven Erikson
Ainzu, my spirit is not beautiful. Lions devour the sweetest of lambs, for that is their nature." "Indeed, you are the beast," Ainzu said. "And is not the beast of the earth? And is the earth not beautiful?
~ Storm Constantine
Your pretty songs were nothing but lies and now, because of you, your friends will perish here. I will devour them for their false trust in their deceit. Why don't you sing for me while I feast, lovely bard? I like a pretty tune.
~ Storm Constantine
Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour and selfishly indulge in any time I want. ?-Nina Jean Slack
~ Nina Jean Slack
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war, Daniel. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind. p. 428
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We all remain silent and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a nightmare that will pass. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what really happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour everything they left behind.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them & they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you. My dear, Ivy, I want to devour you. I want your juices on my toung, flooding my mouth. I want your wetness on my face, your scent covering me. I want your blood in my veins.
~ Kathryn Smith
Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.
~ Kelly Braffet
And all the time my very soul would travel with her, invisible and crying soundlessly with pain. I had acquired a dimension of suffering which would poison and devour my whole being, as far as I could see, forever.
~ Iris Murdoch
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
~ Bible
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
~ Gao Xingjian
Love is the only thing - I don't want to say that "makes it bearable" - but I feel like without the possibility of love, this place would just devour us.
~ Junot Diaz
Fire is always hungry for things that don't belong to it.
~ Susan Meissner
What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.
~ Susan Wiggs
Intensity of connection, Depth of emotion, Unified thoughts, No doubts in the significance of you.
~ Truth Devour, Wantin
An arrogant head of state gives permission to all nature of hate as long as it feeds his ambition. And the unfortunate truth is, people devour it. Society gorges itself, and rots. Permission is the bloated corpse of freedom.
~ Neal Shusterman
the frisson of fear that comes from knowing that you're safe even while the tigers noisily devour your neighbor.
~ Charles Todd
Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.
~ Sergio Mattarella