Love was like a toothache.

, loneliness is like a toothache: It's awarning signal that something is wrong. And like a toothache, if left unattended, it usually gets worse.

— Senoraroy

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain,…

— Anonymous

I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain…

— Abi Morgan

“And before you know it, the object disappears, arguments evaporate; no culprit is discovered, the offense ceases to be an offense and becomes a…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Even the most heartening of philosophical vistas is no match for, say, a toothache, if it happens to be your own.

— Roger Zelazny

She's as funny as a toothache

— Erma Bombeck

I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word.…

— Chely Wright

“My need for love had gone underground, like a canny toothache.”

— Alice Munro

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

— T. S. Eliot

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I had a toothache during the first game. In the second game I had a headache. In the third game it was an attack…

— Siegbert Tarrasch

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour…

— Benjamin Franklin

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last.

— Helen Rowland

I spent months searching for some secret code before I realized that common sense has nothing to do with it. Hysteria, psychosis, torture, depression:…

— David Sedaris

You remind me of someone with a bad toothache who's hitting herself in the head with a hammer to distract herself from the pain…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips