Devours Quotes

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This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger. — Jorge Luis Borges
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. — Honore de Balzac
It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in Snows… — Suzanne Collins
The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They… — Rick Riordan
Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places,… — Steven Erikson
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of… — Voltaire
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to… — Samuel Beckett
His head is busy moving between my parted thighs. He makes low purr-like sounds between my legs and is so surprisingly ravenous I can feel… — Katy Evans
I swear love is the most powerful emotion thats ever existed. It owns people, devours them, tears them open and bleeds them out from the… — Jessica Sorensen
In Nature nothing; is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for… — Baron d'Holbach
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future. — Thomas Piketty
You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14… — Parker Stevenson
Fire is born from wood (as two sticks are rubbed together), but then devours its parents. — Rig Veda
Woman is the only creature in nature that hunts down its hunters and devours the prey alive. — Sandro
Sometimes life itself has its turns on us as humans. Parts of it which influence your levels of every day happiness can become such a… — Dav Mar
The soul devours our insides, and the outside is only momentary. All thing's cease to be, for what an opinion stands for nothing and means… — Jeremy Limn
He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the… — William Shakespeare

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