“For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”
Bible
“Even trees do not die without a groan”
Henry David Thoreau
“I like groaning. That means that you're not pandering to their already settled prejudices.”
Bill Maher
“For them therein shall be groaning and therein they shall not hear.”
quran
“It's not our place to sit here and moan and groan about those things. We've just got to go out and make things happen for us.”
Graeme Smith
“[the whale groans] Dory: Okay, he either said, "move to the back of the throat," or he "wants a root beer float".”
Finding Nemo
“Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.”
William Blake