Aching Quotes
160 quotes by 146 authors
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Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I…
— Frank Miller
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It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield,…
— George Orwell
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She had heard Papa sing so many songs about the heart; the heart that was breaking - was aching - was dancing -was heavy laden…
— Betty Smith
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I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way…
— Arundhati Roy
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If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our…
— Mitch Albom
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Staring in the darkness, trying to sleep. My body was aching with tiredness. My limbs were numb. My sightless eyes were crazed with light/ I…
— Kevin Brooks
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Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
— John Steinbeck
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You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don’t die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I’m here because I know the sadness inside you. I know what it feels like to wake in the morning, lost and lonely and aching…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Yesterday i carved your name into the surface of an ice cube then held it against my chest til it melted into my aching pores…
— Andrea Gibson
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How much of life could he spend aching? Aching is not a stable condition; it must resolve into something
— Arthur Phillips
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Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There's no room for anything else. You forget that you're tired or cold or hungry. You forget that banged-up knee and your aching tooth. You…
— John Marsden
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she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever…
— Judith McNaught
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And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
— Beatrice Sparks
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The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire
— Robert W. Service
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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them,…
— Frederick Douglass
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