Top 100 Quotes About Devours
#1. 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
#2. To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
Voltaire
#3. I've seen the ocean lapping lovingly at his muscles. And now I look at the sun stroking his skin like a possessive lover.
My best friend doesn't live life, he devours it.
Petra F. Bagnardi
#4. The electricity devours my soul, fractures it open, and leaves it vulnerable and exposed.
Jessica Sorensen
#5. After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
Bill Vaughan
#6. Brighton goes through English teachers like Hogwarts devours Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers.
Shannon Lee Alexander
#7. Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. He reads every book in his home but it is not enough. The country boy craves stories. He devours every poem and fable in his school and library. Still he hungers. For stories.
Jennifer Lanthier
#10. My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#11. I am the serpent that devours her own tail--her own tale. If you tell a tale well enough, it becomes a path to follow. I shed my skin and begin again.
Mary Sharratt
#12. Knowledge is as powerful as fire. The brighter it burns, the more it devours.
Jessica Cluess
#13. Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy
#14. The Englishman, be it noted, seldom resorts to violence; when he is sufficiently goaded he simply opens up, like the oyster, and devours his adversary.
Henry Miller
#15. O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
Thomas Carlyle
#16. When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn't that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.
Raymond Carver
#17. The simplicity of living astounds me.
But it's the terror of death that devours me.
L.B. Simmons
#18. I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre Gide
#19. Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.
Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl Of Strafford
#20. Anger is like that. Runs on its own fumes, devours itself voraciously, explosively, until one day there is no fire left. Only pure, cold, unbreakable hardness. Like the diamond core in me.
Leah Raeder
#21. Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
Henri Matisse
#22. There remains the mystery of how the pupil devours so much bastard beauty. Abandoned property.
This land and I are rewilding.
Ada Limon
#23. Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?
Who's sorry for a gnat ... or a girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#24. The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.
Ted Hughes
#25. My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books.
Anthony Horowitz
#26. Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
Octavio Paz
#27. The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire.
Bhartrhari
#28. Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.
Georges Bernanos
#29. Tempus edax rerum.
Time that devours all things.
Ovid
#30. Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner
#32. A single swallow, it is said, devours ten millions of insects every year. The supplying of these insects I take to be a signal instance of the Creator's bounty in providing for the lives of His creatures.
Ambrose Bierce
#33. If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.
Steven J. Lawson
#34. If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
Henrik Ibsen
#35. Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold.
Albert Claude
#36. The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
Sam Vaknin
#37. Without standards, you end up accepting any morsel of paying work that comes your way, like a hungry mouse devours a crumb. You remain stuck in that gut-tightening, demoralizing position of doing work you despise, for clients you don't like, just because you need the money.
Pete Savage
#38. A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same.
Shunryu Suzuki
#40. Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.
Mariska Hargitay
#41. She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.
Juvenal
#42. Greed is a snarling monster with a set of razor-sharp teeth on both sides of its head. It devours not only those from whom it takes, but also those who eagerly receive its plunder.
Chris Seay
#43. But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
Samuel Beckett
#44. But again the eternal question - what need is there of my humility? Can't I simply be devoured without being expected to praise what devours me?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#45. Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
Cornel West
#46. Is it not enough that I am devoured, without my being expected to bless the power that devours me?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#47. Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.
Gautama Buddha
#48. Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
Robert Muller
#49. A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.
Pat Barker
#50. For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
John Dryden
#51. Love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.
Hadewijch
#53. The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes ... right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
Rick Riordan
#54. Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
John Arbuthnot
#55. There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.
Graydon Carter
#57. (Watch closely, folks, here it is: Science, the ugly little beast that devours itself!)
Orson Scott Card
#58. A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Charles Baudelaire
#59. For anyone who devours the web on a daily basis, the biggest problem is too much of a good thing. There's so much extraordinary content - from articles to images, videos and Tweets - that it's almost impossible to keep track of it.
Ryan Holmes
#60. Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.
Arsene Houssaye
#61. Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.
Dada Bhagwan
#62. Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
William Matthews
#63. In the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.
May Sarton
#64. Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future.
Thomas Piketty
#65. Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.
Helen Foster Snow
#66. No, Your Grace. At the end a dragon hatches from an egg and devours all of the lions.
George R R Martin
#67. Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.
John Piper
#69. Saying of the Prophet
Envy
Envy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.
Idries Shah
#70. Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine.
Honore De Balzac
#71. My mind is like a sea
You will only drown,
If you think you can swim
There are things that devours me,
No love can ever save me.
J. Limbu
#72. In the house of the wise are stores of choice food and oil, but a foolish man devours all he has" (Proverbs 21:20, NIV).
Gary Chapman
#73. Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
Rene Daumal
#74. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the
little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and
tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
last devours them all at a mouthful:
William Shakespeare
#75. Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#77. Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis Borges
#78. Those corrupted by the pursuit of power, despite another's attempt at unspoiled love, cannot be rescued from the darkness that devours the soul
Christy Hall
#79. Bitterness is one of the deadliest emotions we ever feel. You can't look forward when you're bitter, only backward - thinking about what you've lost, stuck in the past, despairing because it's gone. In the end, it devours all hope.
Lynn Austin
#80. Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
Hector Berlioz
#81. I have so much, yet my feeling for her devours it all. I have so much, yet without her all of it is nothing.
Elisabeth Krimmer
#82. And the violence of the coupling itself, primitive and elemental, reminding us that we're all just dumb animals clinging to our spot on the food chain, eating, sleeping, and fucking as much as possible before something bigger comes along and devours us.
Jonathan Tropper
#83. Whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise.
William Shakespeare
#84. Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.
Steven Erikson
#85. The world devours the world to make the world
Anne Rice
#86. Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness
presently
Every bed is narrow.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#88. 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.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#89. Anguish devours the mind, and furious rage, and hope
than which the heart can bear no heavier burden, when
it is long deferred.
Statius
#90. Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
Honore De Balzac
#91. You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.
Parker Stevenson
#92. Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.
J.M. Coetzee
#93. The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted.
Victor Hugo
#94. There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me
Gustave Flaubert
#95. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts?
Voltaire
#96. This school devours privacy, and rumors are like drops of blood in an ocean full of predators.
Stephanie Kuehn
#97. This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats high mountain down.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
George Eliot
#99. Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
Henry Ward Beecher
#100. The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
