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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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• You ache with loneliness one night so much you weep and I say 'here is a rope tie it around me Hafiz will be your companion for life'.

  Hafez

  Loneliness, Night, Ties

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• Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.

  Guy Finley

  Pain, Mistake, Past

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• People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are different. We are the only species that has an extra medium of design preservation and design communication: culture.

  Daniel Dennett

  Believe, Communication, People

  Daniel C. Dennett (2014). “Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Judging

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• A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Greatness

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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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• In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment

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• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Humorous, Sleep

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 1 (1896)

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• I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

  Joshua Mohr

  Pain, Drug, Mind

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• Entrance and exit wounds are silvered clean, The track aches only when the rain reminds. The one-legged man forgets his leg of wood, The one-armed man his jointed wooden arm. The blinded man sees with his ears and hands As much or more than once with both his eyes.

  Robert Graves

  Rain, Eye, Men

  Robert Graves (1959). “Collected Poems, 1959”, London : Cassell

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• And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spring, Firsts, Fats

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.61, Stanford University Press

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• I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Baseball, Fun, Pain

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• I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.

  Mary Oliver

  Death, Heart, Snakes

  Mary Oliver (1986). “Dream Work”, p.32, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dark, Night, Old Wounds

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Winter, Volcanoes

  "Waging Germ Warfare". www.miamiherald.com. December 27, 2009.

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• My heart is tuned to sorrow, and the strings Vibrate most readily to minor chords, Searching and sad; my mind is stuffed with words Which voice the passion and the ache of things: Illusions beating with their baffled wings Against the walls of circumstance.

  Amy Lowell

  Wall, Passion, Heart

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• On the good ship Lollipop Its a sweet trip To the candy shop Where bon-bon's play, On the sunny beach Of peppermint bay Lemonade stands, Everywhere Crackerjack bands, Fill the air, And there you are, Happy landings on a chocolate bar. See the sugar bowl Do a tootsie roll In a big bad devils food cake, If you eat too much, Oh, oh, You'll awake, With a tummy ache.

  Shirley Temple

  Sweet, Beach, Air

  Song: On The Good Ship Lollipop

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• I should be glad of loneliness      And hours that go on broken wings,A thirsty body, a tired heart      And the unchanging ache of things,If I could make a single song      As lovely and as full of light,As hushed and brief as a falling star      On a winter night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Song, Stars, Loneliness

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• I am pregnant with song. My body aches but do not betray me. I will sing songs and hide them away. I will tear them into bits and throw them in the street. The streets of my city are full of dark holes. I will hide my songs in the holes of the streets.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Song, Dark, Cities

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.1, Quale Press

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