Quotes About Ache

It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it's there.

When we are shame-based, we can only focus on our own ache.

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

We want more than there is.

Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

melting with sorrow and loveliness, a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.

a starry ache that lifted me up above the windswept city like a kite: my head in the rainclouds, my heart in the sky.

The world's plan always leads us to places of pain, loneliness, and a deep ache for belonging that seems just out of reach.

The enemy uses disappointments to cause so much trouble in an unsettled heart. A heart hungry for something to ease the ache of disappointment is especially susceptible to the most dangerous forms of desire.

Because God is with us in the human struggle, we are no longer destined to fruitlessly rearrange the circumstances of our lives. We no longer depend on another move, another relationship, or another weight-loss program to rescue us from nothingness, from that persistent ache in the pit of our souls. We can flourish because in Jesus Christ the Creator came to us and restored our dignity as God's children.

Missing is one of the true tragedies in life," he says. "That ache that nothing soothes. I thought time would soften it. It's supposed to, isn't it? But all these years later, I still long for what I had. What we all had. What is no more.

You cannot know how frightened gods are of pain. There is nothing more foreign to them, and so nothing they ache more deeply to see.

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death.

The yearning for him is like hunger, hollowing me.

I touched the thought like a bruise, testing its ache.

For the search for wholeness compels every person, every hour of their lives, whether they know it or not. We ache to be made whole again. And only one Person who ever walked this earth can do this for the heart and soul he created himself.