Quotes of: Devours Keyword

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

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

Emile M. Cioran

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.

Emma Forrest

Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes

Bill Watterson

My eyes hunger to read more books then time allows me to devour.

G.K. Griswold

Trying is fine. Failing is inevitable. Don’t let it devour you.

Cast in Shadow

He rose up like a languid god after devouring a bountiful feast.

Laird of the Mist

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

Yuvraj Singh

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Voltaire

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I devour books. But for the longest time, I refused to pay attention to genre or labels.

Alison Tyler

If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.

Asne Seierstad

They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals—if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.

Black Beast

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

Regeneration

I haven't devoured a soul in...What month is this? March?

The Throne of Fire

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

Prometheus Illbound

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

T. S. Eliot

Jealousy devours us, we are its dish of the day. (Jalousie nous dévore. - Nous sommes son plat du jour)

Charles de Leusse

Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.

Bahá'u'lláh

Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.

Honore de Balzac

They were just words we forgot ourselves in those words. The words then devoured us a whole.

Jeremy Limn