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- Nov 07, 2020
Gnawing Quotes
Quotes on feelings that won't let go
Gnawing shows up less as a physical bite here and more as an emotional one — guilt eating at a conscience, a bad mood chewing away underneath a calm surface. It's the word writers reach for when something small keeps working at the edges of a mind.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creeping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Borderlands' came out of nowhere to appease the gnawing hunger left behind with the dearth of quality dungeon crawlers on the market.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have our moments of emotional vulnerabilities as any other human being, and my greatest fear gnawing away at me is losing my loved ones.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing that matters is to have charm and expression. Then comes that horrible gnawing doubt of our own magnetism. Is it possible that, though we are not lovely, we are not irresistible either? That we will have to go through life belonging neither to the triumphantly beautiful nor to the triumphantly ugly?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.
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- Nov 07, 2020