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Ache Quote by Mark Nepo

“Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.” quote by Mark Nepo — Download Open image

“Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.”

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… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

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A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

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I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.

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They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars……

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as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists, periodontists, gynecologists…

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Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

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Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

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Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto…

O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an…

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