Devoured Quotes

An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.