Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and…

— Anais Nin

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People…

— Remy de Gourmont

Do you know, I always imagine that the subway trains are dragons,' Rose said to Bear as they clung to his coat for support…

— Regina Doman

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,…

— Herbert Spencer

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

— Honore de Balzac

In the tension between devouring want or simple need it's clear the only lines between the ones we preserve.

— As I Lay Dying

We want something desperately and we try to force the God to give it up before it is ready. We want everything now. That…

— Anonymous

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer…

— Thomas Hodgskin

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

— Herbert Spencer

Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like…

— James Spader

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

— Don DeLillo

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Anonymous

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring…

— Clive Barker

Precisely because the State has the monopoly of coercion it can be allowed the monopoly only of coercion. Only if the modern State can…

— Henry Hazlitt