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And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.
— Ovid
When he died, I felt like a dark, devouring force had been stilled at last. I wore his death like wings.
— Thomas H. Cook
You went through hell and lived. That leaves marks
— Simon Holt
Guilt was a parasite with nasty teeth, slowly devouring his ability to find any kind of peace.
— Sandra Owens
She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.
— Angela Carter
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
— Ovid
The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
— Tennessee Williams
Your heart gives you your power, Regina. Follow it, fight with it, and you cannot be defeated
— Simon Holt
There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.
— Edna O'Brien
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
— John Lyly
Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench.
— Baha'u'llah
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
— Ambrose Bierce
Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing.
— Haruki Murakami
In the dark the mind runs on like a devouring machine, the only thing awake in the universe.
— Don DeLillo
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
— Henri Bergson
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
— Jonathan Swift
Freshman year. We made it. And with only one body possession and one accidental death to our names
— Simon Holt
My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can't look at a jar without devouring it!
— Monica DiNatale
Society proceeds like the ocean. After a disaster, it resume its wonted level and rhythms; its devouring interests efface all traces of damage.
— Honore De Balzac
Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.
— Wm. Paul Young
has been no one else since you. No one." His mouth was hot on my skin, devouring me. "You're all I think about, all I want. You are everything.
— Penny Reid
Only the very top of the arched ceiling remained in shadow, as though some dark creature lurked there, devouring all light that strayed too close.
— Miyuki Miyabe
She kisses like a sweet devouring, and I don't know where to touch her because I want all of her.
— John Green
[O]ne could see by his face that he was not reading but devouring, with barely any time to chew.
— Anton Chekhov
All-devouring time, envious age,
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid
Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die. — Ovid
And before that, there was, oh, I don't know, editors experiencing demonic possessions and devouring lagging midlist writers. It's always something.
— John Scalzi
Then love-devouring Death do what he dare.
— William Shakespeare
The crocodile cannot turn its head. Like all science, it must always go forward with all-devouring jaws.
— Pyotr Kapitsa
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
— Herbert Spencer
Time is the great doctor of your life. You have to respect the doctor. The devouring self is the patient. Listen to the doctor.
— Ruben Papian
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight.
— Nikki Grimes
We want something desperately and we try to force the universe to give it up before it is ready. We want everything now. That is the devouring self.
— Ruben Papian
Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.
— Honore De Balzac
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.
— Jean-Paul Marat
I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
— Dan Brown
Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Secrets are festering parasites to a relationship, devouring their hosts from within, leaving behind a empty hollow husk of what once was.
— Mark W. Boyer
Cannibals are devouring senators.
— Arlen Specter