Ache Quotes - Page 12

• Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Spiritual, Sadness, Sick

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• For me, a place unvisited is like an unrequited love. A dull ache that- try as you might to think it away, to convince yourself that she really wasn't the right country for you- just won't leave you in peace.

  Eric Weiner

  Country, Unrequited Love, Thinking

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• Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Little Sister, Ribs, Littles

  Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.29, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• ‎She didn't understand what it was like to be filled with a love so strong that it made your chest ache—a love you could only feel and not express. Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up inside until you wanted to scream or kick something.

  Richelle Mead

  Love, Strong, Scream

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.360, Penguin

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• But that mimosa grove-the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since-until at last, twenty-four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Girl, Stars, Flames

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Lolita”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• Is love the desire—no, the need—to be with that person, whatever the cost? Does it cause the rue of rage when you see that person with another? Does it make you ache to hold her, to whisper things that sound foreign and strange to your tongue? Does it make you wish for things you know can never be? I haven't the answers, Riley. In all that I've learned over the years, no one has ever mentioned a force such as this. But whatever it is, I feel it for you. We would have been good together.

  Keri Arthur

  Years, Together, Wish

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• Memories, so sweet and bitter.. they had both nourished and devoured him for so many years. Until a time came when they began to fade, turning faint and blurred, only an ache to be quickly pushed away because it went to your heart. For what was the use of remembering all you had lost?

  Cornelia Funke

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkspell”, p.76, Scholastic Inc.

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• Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

  Jamie Ford

  Missing Someone, Hurt, Real

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.222, Allison & Busby

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• Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.

  Veronica Roth

  Sight, Sometimes, Feels

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• Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Broken, Muscles

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• I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful memory, even though this memory makes my heart ache. Sometimes I almost want to ask God to let me forget this memory. But as long as I try to be strong and not run away, doing my best, there will finally be someday...there will be finally be someday I can overcome this painful memory. I believe I can. I believe I can do it. There is no memory that can be forgotten, there is not that kind of memory. Always in my heart.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Running, Strong, Memories

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• What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that I can pay the rent, I'm worrying about people I care about, you know, the people I love. The little aches and pains of my children that I, my family. That's always first.

  Paul Auster

  Children, Pain, Night

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 5, 2009.

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• Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss? Romantically she decided that love must surely reside in the gap between desire and fulfillment, in the lack, not the contentment. Love was the ache, the anticipation, the retreat, everything around it but the emotion itself.

  Kiran Desai

  Loss, Contentment, Desire

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Jan 13, 2013

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• 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

  Morning, Loss, Space

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• 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

  Pain, Simple, Shoes

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• but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since." "this then is my story. i have reread it. it has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. at this or that twist of it i feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than i care to probe.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Beautiful, Girl, Stars

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• I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear.

  Franny Billingsley

  Eye, Color, Each Day

  Franny Billingsley (2001). “The Folk Keeper”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Mind, Drones

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• Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't easy for me to accept this simple truth, because there was a time when our stories were the same, but that was six years and two lifetimes ago.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Simple, Years, Two

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• I can see inside planes!' he yells. 'Come and look!' It's difficult climbing in a mini dress...I haul myself up even though my arms ache. I want to see inside planes too. I want to watch the wind and catch birds in my fist.

  Jenny Downham

  Climbing, Wind, Bird

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• Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence.

  Thomas Lynch

  Silence, Tears, Relief

  "The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade".

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• I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• We knew the pain of winter rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class, and how drab and infuriating it was to jump rope while the boys played baseball. We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Baseball, Pain

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• … 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

  Heart, Drs, Normal

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• As a kid, I grew to define what I didn't want my life to be like by sitting behind moaning women on the bus, hearing them bang on about their aches and pains, both real and imagined.

  Julie Burchill

  Pain, Real, Kids

  "Spare me from the whining women who are giving feminism a bad name". www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2012.

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