Ache Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• Oh abstractions are just abstract
  until they have an ache in them.

  Stephen Dunn

  Abstract, Abstraction

  Stephen Dunn (1990). “Between Angels”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Lonely, Perfect, Sin

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• The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

  Marion Woodman

  Inspirational, Trying, Looks

  Marion Woodman (1993). “Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman”

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• I also ache at that thought your majesty... But if they do not offer the sacrifice in blood now, we will all pay dearly with added gallons later. So if some most die it is in a worthy cause.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sacrifice, Blood, History

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• Ivanov: Once I worked hard and thought a lot but I never got tired; now I do nothing and think of nothing, but I'm tired in body and spirit. My conscience aches day and night, I feel deeply guilty but I don't understand where I am actually at fault. And add to that my wife's illness, my lack of money, the constant bickering, gossip, unnecessary conversations, that stupid Borkin... My home has become loathsome to me and I find living there worse than torture.

  Anton Chekhov

  Stupid, Home, Tired

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• Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Psychology, Neurosis, Cold

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.58, BookBaby

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• Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.118

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• Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune's sake.

  Juvenal

  Money, Men, Greed

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• When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

  Tom Petty

  Pain, Important, Different

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• It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.

  Hippocrates

  Healing, Doctors, Hands

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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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• The balance and peace we seek for ourselves and our society won't be achieved through mental effort alone. Mind and spirit are meant to travel together, with spirit leading the way. Until we make a conscious commitment to understand and embrace our spiritual nature, we will endure the ache of living without the awareness and guidance of the most essential part of ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Commitment, Effort

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.147, Anchor

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• [A certain class of explanations in science are] analgesics that dull the ache of incomprehension without removing the cause.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, Class, Dull

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• As a former football player who has carried a football more than 4,000 times, trust me, I did not go into ballroom dancing with my body being 100 percent, with no aches or pains or ailments coming with me. When you're dancing, you're doing stuff that your body's not used to, and so you start to aggravate those old injuries.

  Emmitt Smith

  Football, Pain, Player

  "Q&A: Emmitt Smith on Dancing with the Stars". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

  Petra Stunt

  Taken, Worry, Healthy

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• You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Relationship, Alive, Body

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• I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Evil, Burning

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• I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

  Ally Condie

  Heart, Hands, Waiting

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• Sense how
  Even the smooth stones ache
  With stories of their own
  In the shuddering light of day.

  Scott Hastie

  Light, Stories, Stones

  Scott Hastie, “Life Collects”

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• My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

  Alannah Myles

  Fighting, Loses, Conscience

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• A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Rain, Light

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Oct 18, 2012

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• The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild's fondness?

  Chief Dan George

  Native American, Heart, Grandchildren

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• When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away.

  Nhat Hanh

  Going Away, Stomach

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