Gnaws Quotes

24 quotes by 24 authors

• As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. — Saint John Chrysostom
• I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their… — Guillaume Apollinaire
• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth. — Henry Ward Beecher
• All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills. — Thomas a Kempis
• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some… — Angus Wilson
• I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety,… — Frederic Chopin
• Ask yourself: What forms the decisions you make? What is it that gnaws at you? What are your crucible moments? — Les Wexner
• The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he… — James McBride
• The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. — Harold Laski
• Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. — William Shakespeare
• The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. — Francois Mauriac
• The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and… — Nelson Algren
• Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. — Thomas Huxley
• Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us. — Carl Jung
• Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning… — John Steinbeck
• This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high… — J.R.R. Tolkien
• People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
• My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other. — Charles Bukowski
• Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Who Wrote These Gnaws Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 24 Gnaws Quotes as follows:

• 1 Gnaws Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Charles Bukowski
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Fernando Pessoa
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Henri Nouwen
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Richard Wright
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Awele Emili
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Saint John Chrysostom
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Henry Ward Beecher
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Thomas a Kempis
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Angus Wilson
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Frederic Chopin
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Les Wexner
• 1 Gnaws Quote by James McBride
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Harold Laski
• 1 Gnaws Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Francois Mauriac
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Nelson Algren
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Thomas Huxley
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Carl Jung
• 1 Gnaws Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Gnaws Quote by John Steinbeck
• 1 Gnaws Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien