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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation  (Gnawing Quotes) Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse  (Gnawing Quotes) Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly  (Gnawing Quotes) I don’t like bad feelings gnawing away at me  (Gnawing Quotes) However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry  (Gnawing Quotes) Avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else’s good  (Gnawing Quotes) To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones  (Gnawing Quotes) Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse  (Gnawing Quotes) There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and, when I didn’t have any, gnawing the flesh around my fingernails until I was a bleeding wreck. I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being me  (Gnawing Quotes) Men and women aren’t really dogs: They only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent  (Gnawing Quotes) Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them  (Gnawing Quotes) Fasting gives you confidence to know that your spirit can master appetite... and helps to protect against later uncontrolled cravings and gnawing habits  (Gnawing Quotes) There were silences in my head. I could abandon myself completely to the pleasure of multiple relationships, to the beauty of the day, to the joys of the day. It was as if a cancer in me had ceased gnawing me. The cancer of introspection  (Gnawing Quotes) I’m pretty sure my dog, Pip, gets lonely when there is no one to be with him. But we humans can end up with a gnawing worry about that separation possibly becoming a permanent condition  (Gnawing Quotes) Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm  (Gnawing Quotes) Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head  (Gnawing Quotes) Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing realization that we are fidgeting until we die.  (Gnawing Quotes) To bring down your credit card balances, write down the benefits of reducing your debt. No more gnawing feeling that you’re throwing money away, perhaps. More money flowing to other financial objectives. Then consult the list when you have doubts.  (Gnawing Quotes) I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.  (Gnawing Quotes) Men and women aren’t really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.  (Gnawing Quotes) ... he had a fascinating technique of gnawing his cigar from one corner of his mouth to the other, as if his teeth were equipped with trolley tracks, and suddenly grabbing it out and gesticulating wit it before he jammed it back  (Gnawing Quotes) I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me  (Gnawing Quotes) That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears  (Gnawing Quotes) I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was  (Gnawing Quotes) The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on  (Gnawing Quotes) The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing  (Gnawing Quotes) 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 down, the taste sharp and metal as though I’m gnawing through foilware  (Gnawing Quotes) A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity  (Gnawing Quotes) Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves  (Gnawing Quotes) He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief  (Gnawing Quotes)
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