When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
This morning it occurred to me for the first time that my body, my faithful companion and friend, truer and better known… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
President [ Dwight] Eisenhower warned us, five star general, he said watch out for the military-industrial complex. That's a threat to our… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who… — Nicolas Caussin Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
See the wild Waste of all-devouring years! How Rome her own sad Sepulchre appears, With nodding arches, broken temples spread! The very… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We are standing face to face with the barbarians. The enemy is no longer outside but inside the City, and the ruling… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
And from then on, I bathed in the Poem of the Sea, star-infused, and opalescent, devouring green azures — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you… — Tite Kubo Copy Share Image
In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him… — William James Copy Share Image
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image