Top 100 Quotes About Devour
#1. I feel like you're trying to convince me that we don't need condoms, but fuck that. If you impregnate me, I'm going to devour " you like a praying mantis." I pin Zeph against the wall and kiss her hard, because her threatening to kill or mutilate me is always so hot.
Gisele Walko
#2. Human beings have a hard time regarding anything beautiful without wanting to devour it.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#3. It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.
Pat Frank
#4. It was a sort of infinite monster, tossing its million heads and frothing at its million mouths as it hungered to devour the city," he wrote. "I stood there and heard the monster's growl - his cry for blood - and looked into the black terror of his murderous frown.
Leigh Jones
#5. And my fucking god, she looked amazing. Good enough to fucking eat, but maybe just a little too hot to devour right away.
Shanora Williams
#6. Tatiana's eyes were huge and poison-green, eyes with enough pain in them to eat away at a world and devour a soul.
Cassandra Clare
#7. And it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it ...
Charlotte Bronte
#8. To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf.
Epicurus
#9. I have no sense of what War is like; It may be like disaster Hollywood movies. But i wish india and Pakistan fight a War and devour all ; instead of decapitating one-by-one
Bilal Bashir Magry
#10. You will soon meet someone
who will bring you much joy and love.
Eventually they will devour your soul
Pamela August Russell
#11. I long for a church that understands the dangers of entertainment and sees it for what is is: a lion crouching at the evangelical door, ready to devour us. We need a culture of evangelism that never sacrifices to the idolatry of entertainment, but serves up the rich fare found the gospel of Christ.
J. Mack Stiles
#12. Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.
Ellen G. White
#14. There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.
Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud
#15. We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows
a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we.
Sean Wilsey
#16. No one can be healed of death. All they can do is tame it. Death is a wild animal, sharp-fanged. I am just trying to build a cage to keep it locked in. It is there, beside me, drooling as it waits to devour me. The bars of the cage that protect me are made of paper.
Antoine Leiris
#17. A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#18. I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.
Isaac Asimov
#19. The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
Henry Ward Beecher
#20. The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
Hannah Arendt
#21. When you suffer such a big hurt, the longer you permit it to live in you, the bigger it grows, until it seeks to devour your soul.
Nalini Singh
#22. A man who can effortlessly get what he wants, and right now those exquisite hazel eyes stare her down as if to devour her entire being.
Sarah Stein
#23. 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
#24. I'm addicted to chocolate chip cookies. I mean that seriously. If there are chocolate chip cookies, I will devour them.
Hasan Minhaj
#25. North could have kissed her. He could have done it, he could have swooped in, but he was being respectful. It made her want to devour him whole. Or be devoured whole.
Stephanie Perkins
#26. Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
Salman Rushdie
#27. But hatred and rage solve nothing. Like a might fire, they quickly consume whatever is fed them.Yet it can't last. Soon enough, they devour all around them and burn out, leaving nothing but a hollowed shell no longer capable of feeling anything at all. (First Guardian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#28. Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over ...
Emma Goldman
#29. But if one wishes to be absolute master of all, to obtain the entire inheritance, and to exclude his brothers from even a third or fifth part, he is not a brother, but a harsh tyrant, a rude savage, nay, more, an insatiable beast that would devour the whole sweet banquet with his own gaping mouth.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#30. No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:
My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.
Isaac Watts
#31. I am going to devour you, Magdelegna," he promised her, the darkness of his cravings coming to bear on her fully at last. "You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.
Jacquelyn Frank
#32. In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.
Karleen Koen
#33. He looks like a starving man, like he could devour me all at once. "That swimsuit," he begins. "Is small," I conclude.
Nicola Yoon
#34. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
William Shakespeare
#35. Parents, if your kid is eating herself, you have to let her. Let your child devour herself whole. Even if she disappears completely, encourage her to vanish. Let your child eat the shit out of herself and then shit herself out. Let her eat that.
Melissa Broder
#36. Of x Tyre, and it shall devour
Anonymous
#37. Trees shall fall and starless night devour the sunless day; When wind is in the deadly East, then in the bitter rain I'll look for thee, and call to thee; I'll come to thee again! ENTWIFE. When Winter comes, and
J.R.R. Tolkien
#38. She grabbed his hair and pulled his mouth tighter against her lips. She wanted to possess and devour him.
Alan Kinross
#39. ... So when the last and dreadful hour
This crumbling pageant shall devour,
The trumpet shall be heard on high,
The dead shall live, the living die,
And Music shall untune the sky
John Dryden
#40. He had become a great beast, and yet that beast would devour him
Leigh Bardugo
#41. The others wolves would devour me if they could know that my roar is, in reality, a crying.
Octavian Paler
#42. Our choices are made, our will flexed, in the teeth of events that overwhelm us and devour us.
Zia Haider Rahman
#43. 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.
Jim C. Hines
#44. What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true ...
Erica Jong
#45. As Rilke observed, love requires a progressive shortening of the senses: I can see you for miles; I can hear you for blocks, I can smell you, maybe, for a few feet, but I can only touch on contact, taste as I devour
William H Gass
#46. For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.
Margaret Atwood
#47. I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn.
Emma Forrest
#48. Bloodlust?" "Yes, Father. I have the overpowering desire to devour human beings when the moon is full. God is totally responsible for my condition. He made me a werewolf. It wasn't my choice.
Billy Wells
#49. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
Jacob Epstein
#50. Hate will devour you. Anger, no matter how righteous it feels, is a straight, short path to hell.
J.T. Geissinger
#51. We did not ask if he had seen any monsters, for monsters have ceased to be news. There is never any shortage of horrible creatures who prey on human beings, snatch away their food, or devour whole populations; but examples of wise social planning are not so easy to find.
Thomas More
#52. I would much rather devour a piece of well-seasoned squash than a slice of an animal's rotting carcass.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#53. The generation of choice has left us no choices. As our world turns and we devour ourselves. We stare into the eyes of our children, a brilliant reflection of our image. And, we blame them for what we see.
Sonja Cassandra Perdue
#54. If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion.
Idries Shah
#55. I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.
W. Somerset Maugham
#56. It is great to be desperate for the word of God. It is also assential to have the spirit of discernment because there are many vultures and wolves in sheep skin in the Body of Christ. They are longing to devour those who are genuinely seeking for Kingdom of God.
Euginia Herlihy
#57. Three dark queens
Are born in a glen,
Sweet little triplets
Will never be friends
Three dark sisters
All fair to be seen,
Two to devour
And one to be Queen
Kendare Blake
#58. Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
By eating, and it fears to starve, unless
It still may feed, and all it sees devour;
Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.
William Davenant
#61. I want to devour you with my eyes, and tell you over and over that you've never been so beautiful.
Alain Delon
#62. never allow a man to devour your growth in order for you to remain two levels beneath him. You weren't created to be a stepping stone. You weren't created to be a punching bag. That's not something you should accept as the definition of love.
Ja'nai Ivory
#63. Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.
Robert Silverberg
#64. She wanted to inhale him. Devour him.
Lick every inch of his incredible body.
Monica McCarty
#65. I'm so wicked you have no idea"
He is looking at my mouth not as if he wants to kiss it.
Matt is staring at my mouth as if he means to devour it.
Katy Evans
#66. He wanted to consume her, devour her, possess her completely. He needed to own her gorgeous, pure flesh. He yearned to slice her skin, mar her all over with beautiful, bloody curves.
Jessica Satin
#67. When there's hunger you don't share out your food, you just devour the weakest ones. This practice works among wolves, since it lets the healthiest and strongest individuals survive. But among sentient races selection of that kind usually allows the biggest bastards to survive and dominate the rest.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#68. I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).
Katy Lederer
#69. Do you ever feel so angry that you think you could devour the whole world and still not be satisfied?
Holly Black
#70. Indeed, those who devour the property of orphans unjustly are only consuming into their bellies fire. And they will be burned in a Blaze. Quran The Women 4 :10
Qur'an
#71. My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.
Franz Liszt
#72. Holy Christ, the look on your face," Xavier growled. "I want to fucking devour you. Like parents have that urge to eat their young.
Varian Krylov
#73. They alone moved through the vast inertness. They alone were alive, and they sought for other things that were alive in order that they might devour them and continue to live.
Jack London
#74. 1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.
Joyce Meyer
#75. Like dogs and lions, small children can sense fear. The slightest flinch, the slightest disinclination, and they will jump atop you and devour you.
Rachel Cohn
#76. Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
Thomas Nashe
#77. All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
Thomas Carlyle
#78. s the whole law is fulfilled in one word: t "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 15But if you u bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Anonymous
#79. Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.
Jason E. Hodges
#80. Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.
David Gemmell
#81. Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!
Elfriede Jelinek
#82. The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#83. It's time to know who you are and why you are on this planet. It's time to grow up and know what God has invested in you, start to embrace it and use it before the world devour you alive.
Euginia Herlihy
#84. Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
William Congreve
#85. She looks at me as though she wants to both devour and strangle me. I chuckle softly. She's fucking adorable.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#86. The problem is that history is not a dialectic progression but a biome, a swamp where ideas chase each other around and wallow and where drupelets of their larvae cluster and then hatch to devour siblings.
Eugene Lim
#87. When I was younger, I used to play mind games in which I'd try to finish tasks in minutes. My favorite was when I would shower, lay out my school clothes, then devour my dinner - in 15 minutes flat.
Alexa Von Tobel
#88. When a chance for real happiness comes by, grab it with both hands and devour it. If it lasts five minutes or five lifetimes, it's still worth it.
Malorie Blackman
#89. There is a point at which methods devour themselves.
Frantz Fanon
#90. Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.
Emil Cioran
#91. Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must devour and destroy all which is decayed, monstrous, abortive in His universe till all enemies shall be put under His feet, and God shall be all in all.
Charles Kingsley
#92. My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came from my desire to see to it that someone stood between the darkness and the people it would devour.
Jim Butcher
#94. Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children.
Joe Queenan
#95. Marriage. That's what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.
Karin Slaughter
#96. Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#98. This history has for so long lived like a spider in my breast. The spider spins and spins, catching memories in its web, threatening to devour every final happiness. With this letter I hope to sweep away the terror and the sadness and to have my heart made pure again by God's grace.
Kathleen Kent
#99. I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.
Steven Millhauser
#100. What black eyes you have ... "
"All the better to devour you with.
Krista Ritchie
