(36 quotes found)
“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not aware / He has been eaten by the bear.”
A. E. Housman
“The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured”
Konrad Adenauer
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.”
“Failure is a bottomless pit ready to devour you. If you always look up and never look down, failure is void.”
Folashade' Ayanwale
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
Charles Baudelaire
“There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour”
Samuel Butler
“Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.”
Will Cuppy
“I discovered I scream the same way whether I'm about to be devoured by a Great White or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.”
Axel Rose