The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Widow. The word consumes itself.
Hate eats the hater the way ogres eat little boys.
You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.
Grief, he said, is carnivorous.
The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.
You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume me… like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.
The thing about relationships is, when you are in the middle of one, they consume your focus.
I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
Nearly everything that defines much of our daily experiences is consummatory in nature. Yes, we consume products and services. But we also consume life experiences, religious narratives, art, literature, and ideas.
I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.
Cease consuming, practice generosity.
