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Quotes About Aching

Exhausted and feverishly hot, I would burrow into bed, my body aching. I dreamt strange dreams and punched in my sleep.
~ Sam Sheridan
O aching time! O moments big as years!
~ John Keats
standing quietly by the window still hungry for I don't know what
~ Marie Howe
I'd open my eyes and look out at the aching blue of the ocean–a color I had never seen in nature and that most likely only exists in the middle of the Atlantic, a gray blue like a storm cloud full of unspent lightning and unfallen rain.
~ Silas House
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.
~ Emily Bronte
Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.
~ George Orwell
Watching me, judging me, smelling the crippling failure oozing from my skin, my desperation clawing and all-consuming panic drenching me as I gape in horror at the world and wonder why everyone is smiling and looking at me with secret knowledge of my aching shame.
~ Sarah Kane
There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of semi concsiousness and numb idiocy.
~ Arthur Koestler
Did people... really kiss like that? She had had NO idea. She had imagined being kissed, and in her imagination she had been swept away by the sheer romance of the meeting of lips. In her naivete she had not considered the possibility that a kiss, as a prelude to sexual activity, might have powerful effects on parts of her body, in fact, even parts she had been only half aware of possessing. She ached and throbbed in all sorts of unfamiliar places
~ Mary Balogh
She was starved hurting limbs.
~ Mary Gaitskill
Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Oh, I want you. I want you so goddamn much I ache.
~ Maya Banks
I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.
~ Beatrice Sparks
Initially, I was a bit hesitant to do the role in 'MTP,' as it was a very serious and aching subject.
~ Nithya Menen
You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.
~ Eric Cantona
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.
~ Juliet Marillier
I've gotten plenty of things. Plenty of girls. But never her. ", Drew Donovan in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow,   All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,   All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!   And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom,   Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, Father, I thank thee!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.
~ Johnny Depp
Moon! Maddened celestial heart -why are you rowing like this, inside the cup full of blue wine, toward the west, such a defeated and aching stern? Moon! And by flying off in vain, you holocaust into scattered opals: perhaps you are my gypsy heart wandering the blue weeping verses! from "Agile Soffits
~ César Vallejo
In vain you beg, in vain you ache, in vain you've opened your wrecked heart wide. Perhaps in heaven the rainclouds quake because we both have cried?
~ Gabriele d'Annunzio
One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
~ John Naisbitt
She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
~ Susan Wiggs
A fear of the cracked tongue, aching body and fuzzy mind brought on by my previous dehydration creeps into my consciousness.
~ Suzanne Collins