- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Groans Quotes
Sound made only by real pain.
Groans quotes here confront war head-on, with veterans describing the shrieks and groans of the wounded as reason enough to reject glorified Pain and bloodshed.
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning. I hear the same groan now, precisely, every morning, when I emerge from my own lair. It's more than an expression of physical weariness - it's an aching of the soul. Even the groans get passed down.
- About
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- Nov 07, 2020
Starting after 60, I thought, 'I'm not going to be able to write a book of poems on the 70s. It's going to be all moans and groans and complaints, and what is there to laugh about?' But I found plenty to laugh about.
- Great Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020