Devours Quotes

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My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books. — Anthony Horowitz
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to… — Walker Percy
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.… — Rene Daumal
Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. — William Shakespeare
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love. — Henri Matisse
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self. — Robert Muller
Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit. — Honore de Balzac
After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee. — Bill Vaughan
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people. — Will Cuppy
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of… — Thomas Jefferson
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,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The unfed mind devours itself. — Gore Vidal
Our envy of others devours us most of all. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me — Gustave Flaubert
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of… — Voltaire
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart. — Voltaire
I do not love men: I love what devours them. — Andre Gide
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

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