Quotes About Groans

My horse's back was wet with life, and I rejoiced in the beauty of every creature that groans and sweats.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Tómese un viejo castillo medio en ruinas. Un largo pasillo con muchas puertas, varias de ellas han de ser secretas. Tres cadáveres aún sangrantes. Tres esqueletos bien embalados. Una vieja ahorcada con varias puñaladas en el pecho. Ladrones y bandidos a discreción. Una dosis suficiente de susurros, gemidos ahogados y estruendos horrísonos. Mézclese, agítese y escríbase. El cuento está listo

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

All the pains and aches man feels in his life are but so many singultus morientis naturœ—groans of a dying nature; they tell him his dissolution is at hand.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

It yields us comfort also in desolate conditions, such as contagious sicknesses and the like, in which we are more immediately under God's hand, that then Christ has a throne of mercy at our bedside and numbers our tears and our groans.

I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes they didn't even sound human. Sometimes she sounded like a cow, and for some weird reason, that made me think about hamburgers and I suddenly realized how starved I was.

What usually frightens people? A monster. They say it's small, hunchbacked, bristling like a Urcheon. It creeps around the castle at night, rattles chains. Moans and groans in the chambers.

I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

It was this calamity he now, with María, penetrated, the only thing alive in him now this burning boiling crucified evil organ—God is it possible to suffer more than this, out of this suffering something must be born, and what would be born was his own death) for ah, how alike are the groans of love to those of the dying, how alike, those of love, to those of the dying.

Punning and groaning are brothers.

So engrossed was he with his occupation that he appeared to have forgotten our presence, for he chattered away to himself under his breath the whole time, keeping up a running fire of exclamations, groans, whistles, and little cries suggestive of encouragement and of hope.

And I wonder if the world is not silent— to be inside of—if it groans, if it creaks as it turns.

Gordon Carter raised both hands for silence. 'The answer to all your questions is: "I have no idea." Sorry, but there it is. Now, I have a pile of marking to do, and intend to get on with it. I'm sure you have a chemistry textbook or something you can look at.' General groans greeted that. 'Or I could always set you a lovely essay … We could recap some of our Merchant of Venice if you prefer?

The old man was aware of only one virtue – Obedience to Tradition. The destiny of the Groans. The law of Gormenghast.

This isn't a strange place for the dance, I tell you. The mask will dance among columns of blood and numbers, among hurricanes of gold and groans of the unemployed, who will howl, in the dead of night, for your dark time.

it is precisely from the lowest abysses of despair that the panic cries and groans of those hungry for love ring out most gruesomely.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

Therefore let no man press for our return before he beds down with some Trojan wife, to avenge the struggles and the groans of Helen.

Our boy looks impressed." "Should be," Rhage muttered as he jacked the belt on his robe. "We are awesome." Multiple groans at that point. Rolled eyes. "At least he didn't pull out the 'totes amazeballs,'" somebody muttered. "That's Lassiter," came an answer. "Man, that son of a bitch has got to stop watching Nickel-fucking-odeon.

But in all that suffering, the most painful suffering of all was the consciousness that it was banal, had all been discovered a long time ago, and was known to all the generations past, all just a repeated series, stamped out by our genes, That the universe was filled to its edges groans as alike as two notes, that those particular groans formed one great groan similar to the shrill parliament of the sparrows and that groan became an interstellar roar, the inaudible groan of the aging cosmos.

Groans that words cannot express" (Rom. 8:26) are often prayers that God cannot refuse. Charles H. Spurgeon