Ache Quotes

• You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Mysterious
  • Ache

• 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
  • Body
  • Cutting
  • Building

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

  

  Stephen Dunn
  • Abstract
  • Abstraction
  • Ache

• How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.

  

  Carolyn Parkhurst
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Lying

• Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • People
  • Losing
  • Inside

• The heart / That laughs must ache.

  

  Georgiana Goddard King
  • Heart
  • Laughs
  • Ache

• When there's an ache, you want to be like aspirin, not vitamins. Aspirin solves a very particular problem someone has, whereas vitamins are a general "nice to have" market.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Problem
  • Particular
  • Aspirin

• I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.

  

  Stephanie Perkins
  • Hate
  • Ache

• But that moment, the one that was supposed to be so special, had turned into an ache that would never heal.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • Supposed
  • Heal
  • Turned

• Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Lives
  • Ache

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