Devouring Quote by Tennessee Williams Download Open image “The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.” — Tennessee Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devouring Goddess Love Venus
Venus, ancient goddess of love and beauty, is an apparently irrelevant, invented deity of the long dead. But Venus merits scrutiny. Chart her life… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Aphrodite-Venus had become not a subject of adoration, but an agent of exploitation. From the moment Christian society perceived sex not as a gift… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage; and they were always mortal enemies — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
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In Lucretius, sexual desire is considered real and genuine, whereas love is illusory. Venus, the goddess who represents the power of sexual desire, is… — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
“The infamous Venus flytrap lives only in one tiny swath of natural habitat—a 60-mile radius around Wilmington, North Carolina.” — Will Pearson Copy Share Image
Mother of Rome, delight of Gods and men, Dear Venus that beneath the gliding stars Makest to teem the many-voyaged main And fruitful lands-… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and… — Anais Nin 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 misrepresented. People… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
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The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer… — Thomas Hodgskin Copy Share Image
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer 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 were like… — James Spader Copy Share Image
Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings. — Don DeLillo 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
Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
