Ache Quotes

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. (Maya Angelou)
It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays. View quote
Ethel Waters
My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song. View quote
Leonard Cohen
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch. View quote
Arundhati Roy
At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I should be glad of loneliness And hours that go on broken wings, A thirsty body, a tired heart And the unchanging ache of things, If I could make a single song As lovely and as full of light, As hushed and brief as a falling star On a winter night. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time. View quote
John Steinbeck
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache do be my enemy for friendship's sake. View quote
William Blake
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 that wasn't an ache but something different. View quote
Nicole Krauss
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool. (Edwin Hubbell Chapin)
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation. View quote
Anton Chekhov
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 lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon. That night he had a stomach ache. View quote
Eric Carle
Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain. View quote
Dave Barry
I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind's treason; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart's need. View quote
R. S. Thomas
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=. View quote
Larry Wall
he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams. View quote
Melina Marchetta
And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. View quote
Paul Harding
There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away. View quote
Robert Goolrick
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse. View quote
Sara Gruen
Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return. (Harlan Coben)
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop. View quote
Shannon Hale
People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture. ... We have language, the primary medium of culture... In a few short millennia - a mere instant in biological time - we have already used our new exploration vehicles to transform not only our planet but the very process of design development that created us. View quote
Daniel Dennett
She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it. View quote
Georgette Heyer
For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache. View quote
Iain Pears