Devours Quotes

• Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

  

  Will Cuppy
  • People
  • Respect
  • Pleasing

• A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Monster
  • Familiarity
  • Devours

• 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 mountain down.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mountain
  • Flowers
  • Devours

• 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.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Angry
  • Head
  • Stomach