Quotes About Groaning
Yaahs!" said Lord Rader-Wellorff, sticking his head out of the roof too. "Oh, that's better," said Peevish, whose head appeared last, as he groaned with relief and tried, in the small space left in the roof rectangle, to stretch his lower back.
~ David Baddiel
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and just then the thin boy yawned. I had labelled him as an ineffectual sort of lad but he certainly could yawn; it was a stretching, groaning, voluptuous paroxysm which drowned my words and it went on and on till he finally lay back, bleary and exhausted by the effort.
~ James Herriot
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Unlike the rest he had seen of the bungalow, the hall beyond the door was dark. He could see the glimmer of three doors and several framed photographs lined up along the walls. The sound of flies was louder, though they didn't seem to be in the hall itself. Now that he was closer they sounded even more like someone groaning feebly, and the rotten smell was stronger too.
~ Ramsey Campbell
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So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.
~ John Milton
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All creation is groaning in one great act of giving birth. — ROMANS 8:22 I still have many things to say to you, but they would be too much for you now. — JOHN 16:12
~ Richard Rohr
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No! Leo yelled. Uhhh, Nico groaned from the floor. Piper! Jason cried. Monkey! Frank yelled. Not monkeys, Hazel grumbled. I think those are dwarfs. Stealing my stuff! Leo yelled, and ran for the stairs.
~ Rick Riordan
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Daar zaten we echt op te wachten,' kreunde Holly. 'Artemis Fowl met toverkracht.
~ Eoin Colfer
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It's unendurable. It is the moaning of the world, it is the martyred creation, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
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Every day is ordinary. Until it isn't. On this early-October morning, the townspeople in Port Fortune wake before dawn to an ordinary day with its ordinary sounds: the groaning of
~ Anne D. LeClaire
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For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
~ Anonymous
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When the wind is blowing, which it almost always is, with the walls groaning and the shutters banging, the rooms overloaded and the staircase wound tightly up through its center, the house seems the material equivalent of her uncle's inner being: apprehensive, isolated, but full of cobwebby wonders.
~ Anthony Doerr
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At present there are among Christians modern Stoics who think it is wrong to groan and to weep and even to grieve in loneliness. Such wild opinions generally come forth from men who are more dreamers than practical men, and who, therefore, cannot produce anything else but fantasies.
~ John Calvin
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Then, marveling at the recuperative powers and endurance of the Ranger horse breed, he tightened the girths on Blaze's saddle and swung astride the bay, groaning softly as he did so. Ranger horses might recover quickly. Ranger apprentices took a little longer. It
~ John Flanagan
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Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
~ Sophocles
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There were dragons, in his dreams, as though some part of him knew the trials were not yet over, that there were battles yet to be fought. He slept fitfully, fidgeting, tossing and turning, groaning and crying out in his sleep.
~ Barry Lyga
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I greeted the morning the only way that makes sense. I groaned. I groaned some more as I pried me off the sheet. Several thousand maniacs were raising hell out in the street. I muttered dreadful threats, dropped my feet into the abyss beside my bed. My threats didn't scare up any peace. Pain blazed from my right temple to my left, ricocheted, clattered around inside my skull. I must have had a great time. I told me, "You got to quit drinking that cheap beer.
~ Glen Cook
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The world is thirsty. All creation is groaning. Christianity as it is has not satisfied the souls of those who hunger for another way of life.
~ Shane Claiborne
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Their hearts groan in many ways. And frankly, I believe we'll all be better off when we take off our religious masks and become more human. Then we can get on with what really matters—the act of cupping our ears to one another's hearts with compassion.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
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When she got back to the house, Cora was awake and at the computer and groaning. "Can I get you something?" Grace asked. "An anesthesiologist," Cora said. "Straight preferred but not required." "I was thinking more like coffee." "Even better." Cora's fingers danced across the keyboard. Her eyes narrowed. She frowned. "Something's wrong here.
~ Harlan Coben
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Putting on weight is easy all the way through. But after the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears off very quickly, and your body is groaning and starting to really shout at you, saying, 'Why? Why? Why? Why are you doing this?'
~ Christian Bale
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This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism
~ Joseph Stalin
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What is this,a summit meeting? Alan demanded as he strode down the hall. It's one thing to be the advance man, he continued as he cupped a hand around the back of his wife's neck, and another to be the sacrificial lamb.Dad's doing a lot of moaning and groaning about this family scattering off in all directions. With Caine getting the worst of it, Serena put in. Yeah. Alan grinned once, appealingly. Too bad he's late.
~ Nora Roberts
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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Dreaming is no other than groaning, while sleep our surgeon hath us in cure
~ Thomas Nashe
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