Devouring Quotes (6 quotes)

“Death devours not only those who have been cooked by old age; it also feasts on those who are half-cooked and even those who are raw.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

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“I read the booklet from cover to cover like it was a wonderful meal and I was a starving man. I devoured every word.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, This World is Full of Monsters

tags: bookworm, devouring, reading

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“The stock market is devouring and the weather is roaring.”
― Steven Magee

tags: change, climate, devouring, environment, global, market, roaring, stock, warming, weather

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“Don't ask me for names. In this damned place all names are damned, and besides none of the maps know them. Here the earth devours itself. I don't imagine a fissure at the bottom of the ravine, I imagine a mouth!”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, Nação Crioula

tags: damned, devouring, earth, fissure, imagine, maps, mouth, names, ravine

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“The government is devouring the health of the masses for its own gain.”
― Steven Magee

tags: devouring, gain, government, health, illness, masses, own, radiation, sickness, toxic

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“«Avrai sentito dire che a questo mondo o si divora o si è divorati…». «Sì: ci si beffa degli altri, oppure si è beffati». «No; c’è ancora una terza possibilità, ed è quella di divorarti da solo, di beffarti di te stesso. Divorati! Chi divora gode, ma non si stanca mai di ricordare che il godimento prima o poi finisce, e diventa pessimista; chi viene divorato soffre, ma non si stanca mai di sperare che i suoi tormenti finiscano, e diventa ottimista. Divora te stesso, e quando il piacere di divorarti si confonderà e si annullerà con il dolore di essere divorato, raggiungerai l’equilibrio perfetto dello spirito, l’atarassia: allora non sarai che un mero spettacolo di te stesso».”
― Miguel de Unamuno, Niebla

tags: ataraxia, devouring

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