Top 342 Ache Quotes & Sayings

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

November’s a burn and an ache.

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.

Insomnia is an indication, not a chaos. Its like ache. Youre not going to provide a patient ache medicine without figuring out whats reasoning the pain.

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

I miss being able to play my instruments - I'm too much of a physical wreck these days. Playing the vibraphone gives me backache, leg ache, and everything-else ache, and the asthma means I no longer have enough puff to play harmonica.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

If you have an ache or pain, or if you don't feel well, get yourself checked.

'Will,' she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. 'Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.'

My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.

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

Youth is no less vulnerable, by the very quality it has of making the heart ache that beholds and has lost it.

the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.

Even smiling makes my face ache.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.

I started to understand what the song could be about. The ache of nostalgia even for things we don't like, the commitment to keep moving despite that ache. It made me think of how I relate to my privilege - as a white person, as someone who grew up upper middle class.

When I play on grass, my body doesn't ache. It can get sore, but it doesn't pulse, and my legs don't ache. When I play on turf, my legs can pulse and ache for up to 24 hours, and it could take 3-5 days to recover, whereas grass, after 24 hours, I'm ready to play again.

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.

Women, aren't they perfect? It doesn't matter if they're fat, skinny, blond, or blue. If a woman is willing to give you her love, Harvard, it's the greatest gift in the world. Makes you taller, makes you smarter, makes your teeth shine. Boy-oh-boy women are perfect, perfect joy and perfect ache. Joy when you first meet them and get to know them. Ache when you leave them. Joy. Ache. Joy. Ache. Joyachejoyachejoyachejoyache.

Hearts are united when they ache and break together.

As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

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

Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.

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.

The heart / That laughs must ache.

The devil-ache of loneliness seldom deserts the bones of the angry.

He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

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

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

My ribs ache from all the texts I'll never make time for.

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.

My back hurts. My legs ache. I'm only four!

His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache.

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

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.

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

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.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

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

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

The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.

Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.

The only ache people have nowadays is ache in the stomach due to over eating and lack of exercise!

Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.

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