Ache Quotes - Page 12

• Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.

  Warsan Shire

  Sad, Time, Moving

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• Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.

  Richard Roeper

  Children, Dad, Heart

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• We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

  Mary Oliver

  Beauty, Needs, Worthy

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• Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, Grace, Body

  Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.12

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• A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely hidden—but it’s there. As we’ll see, the effects of early stress or adverse experiences directly shape both the psychology and the neurobiology of addiction in the brain

  Gabor Mate

  Hurt, Stress, Addiction

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• He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Teeth, Feels

  'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 4, l. [176]

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• Where was I?""A different island," said old Tallow. Her voice was stern, but there was an ache in her look that Omakayas had never before seen. "An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness- you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.""You were sent here so you could save the others," she said. "Because you'd had the sickness, you were strong enough to nurse them through it. They did a good thing when they took you in, and you saved them for their good act. Now the circle that began when I found you is complete.

  Louise Erdrich

  Strong, Islands, Circles

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• I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Heart, Giving

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Pain, Winter

  "The Man Who Loved Children".

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I won't defile my blessings by imagining that I deserve them. Until every human receives the dignity I casually enjoy, I pray my heart aches with tension and my belly rumbles for injustice.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Heart, Blessing, Dignity

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.51, B&H Publishing Group

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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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• November’s a burn and an ache.

  Charles Wright

  November

  Charles Wright (2014). “Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems”, p.163, Macmillan

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• For the body at best
  Is a bundle of aches,
  Longing for rest;
  It cries when it wakes.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Body, Cry, Longing

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1956). “Collected Poems”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I carry the landscape inside me like an ache. The story of who I am cannot be severed from the story of the flatwoods.

  Janisse Ray

  Who I Am, Stories, Landscape

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• My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Starting

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