Devour Quotes
142 quotes by 133 authors
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Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
— Jennifer Crusie
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It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense…
— Albert Einstein
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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.
— Victor Hugo
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You are becoming a snake tomorrow, and as you start to devour people, with that mouth that has eaten others, you cry your love to…
— Tite Kubo
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour…
— Flannery O'Connor
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If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a…
— William Shakespeare
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
— Karl Marx
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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…
— Jacquelyn Frank
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Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes
— Bill Watterson
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I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for…
— Marguerite Duras
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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…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.†(p. 57).
— Shannon Hale
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Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Don't just read words,' he would tell her as he held up the latest story, 'devour them. Let the words create new worlds.
— Janette Rallison
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I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.
— Franz Kafka
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And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen…
— Dorothy Allison
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I felt his eyes devour me as I moved around the room. He assessed me head to toe without blinking, and a hot ache shivered…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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I will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrow…†“That’s nice,†Kate said.…
— Ilona Andrews
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I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other,…
— Joseph Conrad
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