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Quotes About Ache

Sometimes, I get this familiar ache in my heart and a sense of stabbing emptiness around my ribcage. I don't even know what brings it on; it's just familiar like a horrible visitor. What brings me to my knees though, is the even bigger heart-hurt when I recognize this ghastly guest is back again.
~ Ruby Wax
TRYING TO FILL THE empty SPACE i don't know if I will ever understand this Ache. Perhaps it is simpley and completely Love and what HAPPENS. at the end. Loss November 17, early morning
~ Sabrina Ward Harrison
The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.
~ Sabrina Ward Harrison
her body aching as her muscles tightened painfully.
~ Mandy M. Roth
you dangle on the leash of your own longing; your need grows teeth
~ Margaret Atwood
Do you hunger for me, do you burn for me
~ Margaret Atwood
Where was Goblin? I felt an aching loneliness for him. I felt the emptiness of the night air. He was waiting for me to hunt, waiting for the fresh blood. But I had no intention of hunting tonight, even though I was faintly hungry.
~ Anne Rice
Now she settled into the dailiness of grief—not that first piercing stab but the steady, persistent ache of it, the absence that feels like a presence.
~ Anne Tyler
I've never seen a more expressive woman. Or maybe I'm just reading her better because I'm so in tune with her. I can't say, and I can't spare the energy to figure it out now. Whatever it is about her, about us together, it makes me ache and sweat.
~ Shayla Black
When love wasn't fun, it was just boring and dull and achy.
~ Sheri S. Tepper
You need anything else... You to touch me like I matter...
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Because I've lost my children, too, and I know the ache that lives inside the heart that no amount of solace or alcohol will squelch. I know what it's like to have the powers of a god and to not be able to hold the one thing that means the most to me. And if you think for one minute that I would ever serve that to another being, even Artemis, who I'd like to torture for eternity, then go ahead and call down your army on me. I would deserve whatever death they give. (Sin)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams.
~ Melina Marchetta
Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?
~ Richard Yates
… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.
~ John Irving
Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
~ Lionel Shriver
Across her face there seemed to pass many feelings and reflections: it was as if she ached to touch and gather in and make whole those scattered years of change. But how can time be gathered in and kissed? There is only flesh.
~ John McGahern
So we have great wars sometimes, and I put up Dumas' flag, or Soulié's, or Eugène Sue's (yet he was properly possessed by the 'Mystères de Paris') and carry it till my arms ache.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
That wave, that wall, was still coming. It ached in my sinuses like dropping pressure. The pain was blinding.
~ Elizabeth Bear
There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
An ache stayed inside her. And a faint reverberating hum of something close to joy lived on the outer edges of her memory, some kind of longing that had been answered once and was simply not answered anymore.
~ Elizabeth Strout
But an ache stayed inside her. And a faint reverberating hum of something close to joy lived on the outer edges of her memory, some kind of longing that had been answered once and was simply not answered anymore.
~ Elizabeth Strout
You are missing in my heart...!
~ Backstreet Boys