A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.
Finance, like time, devours its own children.
There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me
The unfed mind devours itself.
If you do not receive Christ as the Lamb who saves and delivers, you will face Him as the Lion who stalks and devours.
Hatred is a parasite that devours all. One doesn't build upon hatred, but upon love.
Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.
It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.
Death devours all lovely things.
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 shine it on the empty shadows.
To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
Morality, when formal, devours.
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.
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. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
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, which it devours in secret.
Nature has become something new. It is ours now, truly. And if our creation devours us, how poetic will that be?