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Quotes About Ache

There was the ache in his heart, and now over his shoulder and down his arm, as
~ Alice McDermott
It's true that he didn't kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence steaming off the wallpaper, digging up the dogwoods, polishing the finials... smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.
~ Alison Bechdel
It's true that he didn't kill himself until I was nearly twenty. But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb. He really was there all those years, a flesh-and-blood presence smelling of sawdust and sweat and designer cologne. But I ached as if he were already gone.
~ Alison Bechdel
Sometime I'll lay down my wrath, As I lay my body down Between the ache of breath and breath, Golden slumber in the bone.
~ Allen Ginsberg
It's horrible when your heart is somewhere your body is not.
~ Joe Lunn
No one honest has an easy life, and its aching for one that causes the most pain.
~ James Kidd
It'll just hurt a lot.
~ E. Lockhart
But all that night his body yearned for Alec's, despite him.
~ E.M. Forster
All of it was there but nothing had substance. It was as if they were all shadows, as if her leaving had taken the life out of the living things and left them shadows. he himself was a shadow.he felt no weight in his step, ,no sound to his voice, no solidity to his gestures. he forgot time. he felt the ache of a pain whose depth he could not fathom no whose end anticipate
~ Earl Lovelace
His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it made him bleed inside. I wondered if it hurt, if it burned in his throat.
~ Francesca Lia Block
I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
~ Franz Kafka
All I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.
~ Franz Kafka
I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.
~ Franz Kafka
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.
~ Anne Lamott
For the past several years, he'd avoided romantic relationships that could gut him in the end. That whole not-sleeping, feeling the deep ache that came from failure, enduring the sudden loneliness of being rejected…it was bad for his disposition.
~ Robyn Carr
Every heart, it have its own ache.
~ Lynn Cullen
It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
So illusion is delusion, and I have been Don Quixote, and nothing that I loved or dreamed existed. I am empty-handed now, a woman with an aching body. Lost. Weeping. Weeping. Saying yes to the analyst like a child.
~ Anais Nin
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
~ Andre Breton
Si jamás te tocara, qué profunda extrañeza-.
~ Ángela Vallvey
I burn for you. Do you know what that is, lass? To feel a yearning that makes you burn both inside and out?
~ Samantha James
Ah, bu bo?luk! Gö?sümdeki bu korkunç bo?luk! Yaln?zca bir kez, yaln?zca bir kez yüre?ime bast?rabilsem onu.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ah, bu bo?luk! Gö?sümdeki bu korkunç bo?luk! Yaln?zca bir kez, yaln?zca bir kez yüre?ime bast?rabilsem onu. — Bu bo?lu?un doldurulabilece?ini dü?ünüyorum ço?u zaman.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin