Ache Quotes

420 quotes by 336 authors

Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and… — W. Somerset Maugham
I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were… — Laurell K. Hamilton
so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache. — Pablo Neruda
...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after youâ€™ve been to the dentist or aches like… — Robert Penn Warren
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy,… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it… — Francesca Lia Block
What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such… — Jodi Picoult
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. — Khalil Gibran
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does… — Christopher Moore
Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I… — Anne Rice
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our… — Jonathan Franzen
Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. — Marilyn Hacker
The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my… — Ellen Schreiber
The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light. — Jon Krakauer
I watched him, filled with tenderness and ache, wondering what it was that connected us. Was it the wounded places down inside people that sought… — Sue Monk Kidd
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --… — Emily Dickinson
On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one… — Eric Carle
Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I… — Sylvia Plath
When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach… — Nicole Krauss
Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle… — Stephen King

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