“Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.”

— Jonathan Swift

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Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

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“He never lets go of Annie's hand. Not when they walk, not when they eat. I doubt he ever plans to.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I never practiced a fretless ever, because the strings eat the neck up. So I would only play it on gigs.”

Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987) Musician, producer, educator

Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius (1985)

“There is a red and angry world…
Red things happen there.
The world eats your wife…
Eats your friends…
Eats all the things… that make you human…
And you become a monster.
And the world… just keeps on eating.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Swamp Thing (1983–1987)

“A shark has appeared and he wants to devour me. Either he devours me or I eat him. The latter is very unlikely.”

Vasily Blyukher (1889–1938) Soviet military commander

Blyukher describing Lev Mekhlis to his wife, shortly before his arrest in 1938. Quoted in Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar.

“The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death.”

Mary Midgley (1919–2018) British philosopher and ethicist

Animals and Why They Matter https://books.google.it/books?id=uE7lNzbN7wEC&pg=PA0 (1983), ch. 2, 4.
Context: The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

“In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughter-houses. And, in a population that is all educated, and at about the same level of physical refinement, it is practically impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. We never settled the hygienic question of meat-eating at all. This other aspect decided us. I can still remember, as a boy, the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughter-house.”

H. G. Wells book A Modern Utopia

Source: A Modern Utopia (1905), Ch. 9, sect. 5

“I will never eat animals or dairy for the rest of my life.”

Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)

On veganism
Source: https://plantbasednews.org/culture/sport/world-champion-lethwei-fighter-dave-leduc-says-being-vegan-is-a-philosophy-not-a-diet
2nd February, 2021