Top 335 Swallowed Quotes & Sayings

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor just wanted to see what it was like in there.

Life just swallowed me up for a few years.

Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.

When I graduated high school, I was 6-5 and 305. I think I swallowed a magic bean pill.

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.

In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

My father was swallowed alive by his own anus. It was a terrible way to go.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.

Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.

Whereas our grandparents lived as if they had swallowed gyroscopes, we think and act as if we have swallowed Gallup polls.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

When I met Christ, I felt that I had swallowed sunshine.

And, ah, who are you? What Horseman, I mean.” Thanatos swung around. “Death.” Cara swallowed. Audibly. “As in, the Grim Reaper?” He snorted. “That poser.

Whatever the cost of repentance, it is swallowed up in the joy of forgiveness.

The night swallowed him up like a thieving fox.

My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.

After 'Adam and Paul,' I had offers from American agents, but I think I would have been swallowed up.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.

The particular qualities and intentions of photographs tend to be swallowed up in the generalized pathos of time past.

I like to think of Doritos as emotional packing material to safeguard the feelings I've swallowed.

If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.

I swallowed the fear. It’s always there– fear– and if you don’t stay on top of it, you’ll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, “Yeah, you’re bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Wha...what are you smiling for...? If I'd swallowed that needle, I'd have died! It's not like putting tabasco in ohagi!!!

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

We get swallowed up by the illusion that unless we can find a place to belong, we are going to be all alone in the world.

...sentences swallowed and sung back and swallowed all over again. She was made entirely out of words.

I swallowed a hand grenade that never stops exploding.

He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.