Quotes about Consumption

Then she let him lick her fingers for her. He ran his tongue around the small ovals of her nails. This was the closest she could get to him without becoming food: she was in him, or part of her was in part of him. Sex was the other way around: While that was going on, he was in her. I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.

No one ever told you greed and hunger are not the same.

A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the power to say no.

Nothing helps gluttony along so well as eating food you don't have to pay for yourself

Nothing should be carelessly thrown away, not even wine from sinful places. There was no such thing as garbage, trash, or dirt, only matter that hadn't been put to a proper use.

He can see the point of venison, of killing to eat, but to have a cut-off head on your wall? What does it prove, except that a deer can't pull a trigger?

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury--you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

Most of our life is a gorging of one artificially inflamed appetite after another.

When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.

Reasons for Discarding Flesh Foods Those who eat flesh are but eating grains and vegetables at second hand; for the animal receives from these things the nutrition that produces growth. The life that was in the grains and vegetables passes into the eater. We receive it by eating the flesh of the animal. How much better to get it direct, by eating the food that God provided for our use!