Gnawing Quotes

You never have a good night's sleep. You never have a peaceful meal. There's this gnawing in your gut. You get peace when you work. - Paul Begala

Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women. - Camille Paglia

What's gnawing at me is the fact that I've not done as well as I expected to do. - Dennis Green

The sting of conscience, like the gnawing of a dog at a bone, is mere foolishness. - Friedrich Nietzsche

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. - Bernard De Voto

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off. - Benito Mussolini

One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn