But now he felt a deep ache in his chest—like that of a…

Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

— Christopher Paolini

“Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed against her kinsman. I thought he…

— Charlotte Brontë

Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

— Veronica Roth

“Rogers and Zinger hustling, and they hadn’t been kidding about pain. His leg throbbed at the move, a deep ache that felt different than…

— Annabeth Albert

“I see you, flawed and humble and road weary and proud and still in spite of the deep ache, somehow sure you’ve done all…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

“There is an ache in my chest today, sweet, searching, and painful, like a tongue that is cut and tingles with sweetness and pain…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

“A KIND OF ILLNESS This ache in my chest is a relentless thing, worse than any fever. A fever is gone with a few…

— Patricia McCormick

“As I think of it, there’s an ache in my chest. I cannot control these dreams in which she seems to lie in my…

— James Salter

“I stare up into the dark with an ache in my chest that makes it hard to breathe. But not hard to think.”

— Ally Condie

I am deeply pained after learning about the death of Pravin Chougule.

— Raj Thackeray

“If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it…

— Marcus Aurelius

“It pained him that he did not know well what politics meant and that he did not know where the universe ended. He felt…

— James Joyce

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated." "Always preaching," retorted she; "always coddling and admonishing." The answer Dr. John would…

— Charlotte Brontë