Ache Quotes - Page 2

• Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Hurt, Athlete, Too Much

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• Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Stars, Father, Eye

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• I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.

  Taurean Green

  Struggle, Sleep, Men

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• And if I remain in the dark about our purpose here, and the meaning of eternity, I have nevertheless arrived at an understanding of a few more modest truths: Most of us fear death. Most of us yearn to comprehend how we got here, and why-- which is to say, most of us ache to know the love of our creator. And we will no doubt feel that ache, most of us, for as long as we happen to be alive.

  Jon Krakauer

  Dark, Long, Understanding

  Jon Krakauer (2013). “Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

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• Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sea, Arrows

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

  Don Williams

  Music, Stars, Forlorn

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• Fill all thy bones with aches.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Bones, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.57

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• It was traumatic but exhilarating to feel what my father felt. I remember the ache of the separation from the people I loved. I would never go back to that time. Yet the things I learned benefited my life.

  Nate Saint

  Father, People, Remember

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• The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dog, Lonely, Moon

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• To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a hug, ears to listen to whatever you want to talk about, and I have a heart; a heart that's aching to see you smile again.

  Laura Ortiz

  Friendship, Smile, Romantic

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• The ache of empty arms was an old tale to you.

  Sara Teasdale

  Arms, Empty, Tales

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Wealth, Prosperity, Perfume

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• Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Essence, Cooking

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• Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.

  Pema Chodron

  Pain, Loss, Suffering

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• He shifted over without comment, lifting the blankets, and I scrambled into the warm sheets beside him. He smelled like soap and sleep and bare skin. He smelled familiar. Not the deja vu familiar of Guy or Mel. Familiar like...the ache in your chest of homesickness, of longing for harbor after weeks of rough seas or craving a fire's warmth after snow--or wanting back something you should never have given away.

  Josh Lanyon

  Sleep, Sea, Fire

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• The years came and went, the children came and left. The worst of getting old is not tiredness and aches and pains, but that time rushes on so quickly, that in the end it doesn't seem to exist. It's Christmas and then it's Easter. It's a clear winter's day and then a hot summer's day. In between it's a vacuum.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Summer, Easter, Pain

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• The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Morning, Heart, Acceptance

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• Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Paris, Promise

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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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• 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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• Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Home, Heartache, Arms

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• There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

  Robert Goolrick

  Heart, Loss, Locked

  Robert Goolrick (2008). “The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, p.213, Algonquin Books

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• I’m a true believer in the mental side of gymnastics – the 95% mental and 5% physical. It’s totally true. As you get to an older age, at 25 years old, I’ve pretty much learned everything that I need to learn in gymnastics. Now it’s, can I mentally push through the daily grind? Can I push through the small injuries and the aches and pains?

  Jonathan Horton

  Pain, Gymnastics, Years

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• It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Christian, Brother, Years

  Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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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