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Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. -- Maureen Dowd
The best prayers have often more groans than words. -- John Bunyan
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. -- Charles Lamb
I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show. -- Dave Attell
An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches. -- James Dyson
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps. -- Phil LaMarr
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people. -- Chief Joseph
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. -- Aeschylus
I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever. -- Charles Spurgeon
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It's more than an expression of physical weariness - it's an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down. -- Kevin Barry
The best prayers have often more groans than words. -- John Bunyan
God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying. -- Malcolm Lowry
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans. -- Joseph Campbell
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts. -- Billy Sunday
Only miracle is plain; it is in the ordinary that groans with the weight of glory. -- Robert Farrar Capon
I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. -- Frank Herbert
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own. -- Frank Herbert
A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies. -- Douglas MacArthur
Why won't you take me, Remington?" He groans and pulls me closer. "Because I want you too much". -- Katy Evans
In the lost battle, Borne down by the flying, Where mingles war's rattle With groans of the dying. -- Walter Scott
To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth -- William Shakespeare
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans... -- Thomas Brooks
The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits. -- William Apess
I have no interest at all in food and drink, but only in slaughter and blood and the agonized groans of mangled men -- Homer
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans. -- William Shakespeare
God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones. -- Jack Prelutsky
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. -- William Shakespeare
Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned. -- Francis Asbury
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness. -- Charles Baudelaire
Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done? -- David Mitchell
Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. -- Ambrose Bierce
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans. -- Orson Pratt
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered. -- John Climacus
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. -- Blaise Pascal
There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans. -- Isaac Marion

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