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• Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Dog, Love You, Soul

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.153, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Hurt, Voice, Body

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• I had been downright paranoid all afternoon, aware of everyone near me. By the time I went for the car, my neck and shoulders were knotted into one painful ache. The most frightening thing I'd seen all afternoon had been the prices on the designer clothing.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Car, Afternoon, Necks

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2009). “Guilty Pleasures”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Desire, Skins, Apathy

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• When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Pain, Members

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.376, Wordsworth Editions

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• Play me something that makes me feel; This soul inside me is made of steel. Brain is breathing, but heart’s not beating And, babe, I need you to make things real. Walk inside me without silence, Kill the past and change the tense. Empty gnawing and the ache is soaring; Take me places that make more sense.

  Melina Marchetta

  Real, Heart, Past

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• so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Lonely, Waiting

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor”, University of Texas Press

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• ...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Morning, Heart, Light

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sad, Spiritual, Strong

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

  Paul Simon

  Pain, Aches And Pains, Certain

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

  Christopher Moore

  Real, Grief, Sorrow

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• if a violin string could ache, i would be that string.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Would Be, Violin, Strings

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• 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.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Mean, Forever, Desire

  Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.70, Macmillan

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• My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

  John Keats

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 1

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• O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

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• I know it aches, how your heart it breaks. You can only take so much. Walk on.

  Edward de Bono

  Healing, Heart, Break

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• The parasite that causes malaria edges through the cells of the stomach wall of the mosquito and forms a cyst which grows and eventually bursts to release hundreds of sporozoites into the body cavity of the mosquito ... As far as we can tell, the parasite does not harm the mosquito ... It has always seemed to me, though, that these growing cysts ... must at least give the mosquito something corresponding to a stomach-ache.

  Marston Bates

  Wall, Science, Cells

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• It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.

  J. B. Priestley

  Children, Piano, Keys

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• Use loneliness. Its ache creates urgency to reconnect with the world. Take that aching and use it to propel you deeper into your need for expression - to speak, to say who you are.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Expression

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.179, Shambhala Publications

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• So many complaints boil down to the belly ache of the fragile, mortal, ignored ego in a vast and indifferent universe.

  Alain de Botton

  Ego, Ignored, Indifferent

  Twitter post from Sep 17, 2013

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• A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Stress, Sadness, Soul

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jul 22, 2014

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• If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

  N. C. Wyeth

  Men, Over You, Paint

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• Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.

  Djuna Barnes

  Moving, Night, Fire

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

  Rumi

  Wine, Fleeting World, Fleeting

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

  Charles Wright

  Heart, Dust, Thick

  Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.95, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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