How does one get a polar bear to stop gnawing on their head?

avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

— St. Catherine of Siena

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

— Hans F. Sennholz

I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.

— Sarah McLachlan

“There is this pain of love. You experience it some moments. It starts like a strange gnawing at your heart. It then slowly spreads.…

— Avijeet Das

“an idea hit him, he sat wherever he was—at his desk, kitchen table, a bar, or behind the wheel of his car—gnawing on his…

— Rebecca Skloot

'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.

— Rob Manuel

“Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one…

— Yann Martel

It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it…

— Ally Condie

I do feel a gnawing sorrow sometimes.

— Simi Garewal

Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that…

— Martin Seligman

“...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly...…

— John Geddes

“I'm scared, but I need to get out of this room. I need to find ways to distract the gnawing pain that feeds off…

— Sara Farizan

“Worrying is like a toothless dog gnawing on a bone.”

— Kathleen Fields

“The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up…

— Myles Horton

What gnashing is not a comfort, what gnawing of the worm is not a tickling, what torment is not a marriage bed to this…

— John Donne