Aching Quotes

160 quotes by 146 authors

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment… — John Naisbitt
The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to… — Saul Bellow
We're quietly aching for something to celebrate — Mark Nepo
Knowing one was comprised of recycled matter only and that selfhood was a delusion did not take away the aching of the heart. — Sebastian Faulks
I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart. — Kate DiCamillo
A brave heart? It feels like a swollen and aching thing in my chest. — Lisa See
God never wastes pain.Â He always uses it to accomplish his purpose.Â And his purpose is for his glory and our good.Â Therefore we can… — Jerry Bridges
What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. — William Cowper
Better a tooth out than always aching. — Thomas Fuller
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There… — Charles Kuralt
When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence,… — John Steinbeck
Why couldn't the merciful God turn down the sunlight so it wasn't blasting like a red furnace against his aching eyes? Because he'd worshipped the… — Nora Roberts
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the… — Emily Bronte
What do you think of that? Itâ€™s stopped raining." Iâ€™m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of… — Mikhail Bulgakov
A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity,… — Neil Gaiman
...you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled… — Tim O'Brien

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