Quotation Explorer - 'Devours'

When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn’t that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows.But it also devours. - Raymond Carver
Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. - Thomas Jefferson
Marriage must fight constantly against a monster which devours everything: routine. - Honoré de Balzac
Once constituted, capital reproduces itself faster than output increases. The past devours the future. - Thomas Piketty
Our envy of others devours us most of all. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me - Gustave Flaubert
Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer. - Dada Bhagwan
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