Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“Every man has a devouring passion in his heart, as every fruit has its worm.” — Alexander Dumas Copy Share Image
“If you teach a wolf how to hunt, it will reward you by devouring you.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver… — John Lyly 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
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught… — Mark Haddon 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
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
This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the… — Primo Levi 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
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
Desperate? So what? I'm desperate, too!" Fenoglio snapped at her. "My story is foundering in misfortune, and these hands here," he said… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books… — James Spader 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
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
You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny,"… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws. — Pyotr Kapitsa Copy Share Image
Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to… — Ruben Papian Copy Share Image
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Anonymous 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
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