Groan Quotes

Prayer is a groan.

— St Jerome

Avoid being a 'groan' up.

— James Simpson

Groan and forget it.

— Jessamyn West

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“hung-over groan, the elective malady’s melody.”

— Ian McEwan

Even trees do not die without a groan.

— Henry David Thoreau

To boldly grow where no one has groan before.

— David Hobson

Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.

— Mason Cooley

“one knee, with a groan, I released my hold upon his throat,”

— Solomon Northup

Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan.

— William Shakespeare

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time.

— Antoine Rivarol

“With a groan, he let his head fall into his hands. His life was officially a bad eighties movie. Without the parachute…

— Charlie Cochet

Defendants would groan whenever they saw me enter a courtroom because I had a reputation for coming armed with the facts and…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

— Frederic Chopin

“It says, Be happy for this moment.” I groan and continue. “This moment is your life.” “In”

— Kristen Proby

“I pillow my forehead on my arms and groan. “But everything I like is sweet.” “I noticed. Write it down.”

— Brianna Hale

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

— Samuel Beckett

“HIERONIMO. Art a painter? canst paint me a tear, or a wound, a groan, or a sigh?”

— Thomas Kyd

And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway rather than take advantage of…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Trevor gave a long-suffering groan. “I’m going to be on my hands and knees, aren’t I?” Nipping the other man’s lower lip,…

— Katie Allen

There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every…

— Patrick David Wall

“No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No…

— Samuel Beckett

It is a sad thing when you hear Christians with a groan in them. When I meet the groaner, I say in…

— John G. Lake

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to…

— Gustave Flaubert

“With a satisfied groan, Sam leaned back against his chair, his hands on his protruding gut. “Ling. How would your mother feel…

— Libba Bray

The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I…

— Charles Dickens

“It’s going to be a bitch, isn’t it? To have to stretch me. Body to body. To have your hands on me.…

— K. Bromberg

“Galadir called her back against his chest and he clearly heard a groan of the woman. «So let me help you, for…

— Chiara Cilli

I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning.…

— Kevin Barry

“What?” Ryder huffed. “Come on that was funny! That was comic gold right there.” She shrugged, enjoying teasing him. “It was OK.…

— Samantha Young

“Which is an interactive sport for our family, since Gil likes to groan over the writing and point out the plot twists…

— Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

“I swallowed a frustrated groan. “Is this one of those idiotic clichés where I turn around and see myself in the mirror…

— Seanan McGuire

“I don’t know why we fight. It takes much too effort to stay mad at you. To dodge your skin in the…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Ah, that groan, Alexis. It’s like you are fucking me from a distance.”

— K.M. Golland

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

— Derek Walcott

“groan again when my brother’s name”

— Emma Hart

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread.

— Edward Young

“God, you’re tight,” Ben groaned. “That was a good groan?” Beatriz asked. “The best groan. I could live and die inside you.”

— Tiffany Reisz