Groan Quotes

• What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan.

  

  Alexander Brome
  • Life
  • Art
  • Lost

• Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

  

  William Blake
  • Mother
  • Infant
  • Groan

• They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Bliss
  • Grudge
  • Groan

• It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Nature
  • Unhappy
  • Groan

• To grumble about the world and its unhappiness is always easier than to beat one's breast and groan over oneself.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Breast
  • Groan
  • Grumble

• There was no more grass, no flowers, not even any moss: dusty granite blocks covered the ice and an occasional grinding groan reminded us that we were on a slow-moving glacier.

  

  Chris Bonington
  • Covered
  • Granite
  • Slow-moving