Ache Quotes - Page 3

• So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still, high, light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share in this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content? No, no, no - but refreshed, rested - while waiting.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Faith, Morning, Husband

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• "I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success."

  David Starr Jordan

  Pain, Work, Men

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• Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Peace, Children, Son

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• What we want
  is never simple.
  We move among the things
  we thought we wanted:
  a face, a room, an open book
  and these things bear our names -
  now they want us.
  But what we want appears
  in dreams, wearing disguises.
  We fall past,
  holding out our arms
  and in the morning
  our arms ache.
  We don't remember the dream,
  but the dream remembers us.
  It is there all day
  as an animal is there
  under the table,
  as the stars are there.

  Linda Pastan

  Dream, Morning, Stars

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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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• My heart beats red, white, and blue.
  And with patriotism it aches
  Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights
  But in particular, cupcakes

  John Walter Bratton

  Believe, 4th Of July, Heart

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• Did you love well what very soon you left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache. Never so full, I never was bereft so utterly. The winter evenings drift dark to the window. Not one work will make you, where you are, turn in your day, or wake from your night toward me. The only gift I got to keep or give is what I've cried, floodgates let down to mourning for the dead chances, for the end of being young, for everyone I loved who really died. I drank our one year out in brine instead of honey from the seasons of your tongue.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Broken Heart, Home, Winter

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• When humans work, they frequently become unaware of their own body, their own senses, are surprised to find that their wrists ache or their backs are sore or their friend has left the building. It's as close to an out-of-body experience as can be achieved short of fifty volts, a circle of warding, a pigeon's claw cut from an albino female of purest white feathers, or a lot of mushrooms.

  Catherine Webb

  Cutting, Mushrooms, Circles

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• A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Fall, People

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

  Danny Kaye

  Children, Laughing, Different

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• God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in my own life, one of the things I need to do is get away, alone with God. . . . In the silence God will speak to you most powerfully. Too often his words to us get muffled, lost, or covered by the crowd of many noises both inside and outside of us. We must have a quiet heart in order to hear God's distinctive message to us.

  Tim Hansel

  God, Loneliness, Heart

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• You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Pain, Winning

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• Countries like ours are full of people who have all of the material comforts they desire, yet lead lives of quiet (and at times noisy) desperation, understanding nothing but the fact that there is a hole inside them and that however much food and drink they pour into it, however many motorcars and television sets they stuff it with, however many well-balanced children and loyal friends they parade around the edges of it. . . it aches!

  Bernard Levin

  Country, Children, Food

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• Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

  Guy Finley

  Pain, Shoes, Feet

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Feb 10, 2017

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• When the sweet ache of being alive, lodged between who you are and who you will be, is awakened, befriend this moment. It will guide you. Its sweetness is what holds you. Its ache is what moves you on.

  Mark Nepo

  Sweet, Moving, Alive

  Mark Nepo (2015). “The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• Be...As a page that aches for a word
  Which speaks on a theme that is timeless

  Neil Diamond

  Writing, Pages, Speak

  Song: Be, Album: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 1973

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• You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.

  Simon Van Booy

  Pain, Shock, Happened

  Simon Van Booy (2014). “Everything Beautiful Began After”, p.237, Oneworld Publications

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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 learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

  Amy Tan

  Children, Pain, Disappointment

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.15, Penguin

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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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• What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cutting, Vision, Sometimes

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The hunt isn't sustaining me. It's flowing blood that I really crave. The sweet taste of red succulent liquid mixing with the salt of my beloved as it drips and dances on his flesh. To know that someone will ache for me as much as I hunger for him and eternally satiate each other. I want someone to satisfy my hunger forever.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Sweet, Blood, Forever

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• The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.

  Jon Krakauer

  Sweet, Light, Desert

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.33, Pan Macmillan

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