Quotes About Grievous

And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though such grievous things as sorrow and death could never happen in the world wherein they live.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days

Why will it not work. What magic word made it work. Who is the keeper of that word. What did it profit Him to switch this one off. What a contraption it is. How did it ever run. What spark ran it. Grand little machine. Set up just so. Receiving the spark, it jumped to life. What put out that spark? What a sin it would be. Who would dare. Ruin such a marvel. Hence is murder anathema. God forbid I should ever commit such a grievous—

I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

Some say that the self endures after death, some say it perishes. Both are wrong and their error is most grievous.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity.

clamped his left hand hard over the wound. Blood

Prayer is a salve for every sore, even the sorest, a remedy for every malady, even the most grievous.

Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them.

Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,

For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.

Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction—a grievous destruction!