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Quotes About Ache

But what you don't realize, until you have to live it, is that it's the absence of the person that's the trouble. The ongoing absence. And when you're missing someone, a longer time without them doesn't solve the problem. The longer you don't see someone, the more you miss them.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I had no answers, just a never-ending list of questions that I scrawled out until my hand ached, knowing I was searching for a loophole that increasingly felt like a noose.
~ Gina Buonaguro
I missed Darlene so much that it felt like a fever.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018
People don't realize how desolate you feel. How this ache never goes; it's like a weight in the middle of the body, a bad ache in the gut every single day. And the thing is, it's not simply a case of missing a person--it's missing everything that came with that person.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Hartnell's appearance at this time will indubitably require you to address…a conflict, perhaps? It is a rhetorical question. Consider your discomfort and welcome it as the ache necessary for you to become more deeply attuned.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.
~ William Shakespeare
The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
I am always lonely for things I've never had and people I've never been.
~ Nikki Giovanni
I wonder if you can understand, I never really knew what it was to want, until you.
~ Nora Roberts
She hadn't thought anything could squeeze past the pain in her head, the ache in her stomach, the sizzle of shame in her blood. But she hadn't counted on despair. Somehow despair always made room for itself.
~ Nora Roberts
The tension was slipping away from under his fingers as he touched her, and building everywhere else. A kind of gathering inside her, a concentration of heat. The pressure in her chest was so sudden and strong it made her breath short. The muscles in her stomach began to twist, tighten. Ache. "My face doesn't have anything to do with what I am." "Maybe not, but that doesn't take away the pure pleasure of looking at it.
~ Nora Roberts
She's seen it, pictured it, dreamed of it. She's wanted it so bad.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
People carry in their hearts an inconsolable longing for something and they are never quite sure what it is.
~ Clifford Thurlow
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
~ Virginia Woolf
really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.
~ Vladimir Nobokov
Unconsciously, one hand crept down to her belly, where an ache was beginning to blossom.
~ Celeste Ng
We are the total of our longings [...]
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
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.
~ Georgette Heyer
Listen my love the hour is late my side has an ache If you don't get a taxi my heart will break
~ Norman Mailer
Desire turns us into ghosts
~ Octavio Paz
Samiha. Entonces
~ Orhan Pamuk
Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
~ Orson Scott Card
forget them, or the loss of them all will drive you mad. But his heart simply did not obey. Memories, so sweet and so bitter … they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?
~ Cornelia Funke