Quotes about Consumption

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thing The Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey.

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.

I drink no more than a sponge.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender.

We have been taking into our mouths the bodies of dead birds.

Just as we are what we eat physically, we are also what we consume spiritually.

Life is beautiful, so long as it is consuming you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is glorious. It is best to roar away, like a fire with a great draught, white-hot to the last bit.

My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.

Used to tell me that people spend money on three things: what they love, what they worship, and what helps ease their pain.