Mary Oliver
Poet
"We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it."
Ache quotes
Ache
48 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Diana Gabaldon
Author
"Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches."
Rich Mullins
Musician
"Usually when we do something to corrupt our lives, it's usually something to fulfill an ache that we have."
Djuna Barnes
Author, Poet
"Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them."
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"You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache."
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"The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart."
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"He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache"
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"I know nothing and my heart aches"
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"We're all right, you know,' he says quietly. 'You and me. Okay?' My chest aches, and I nod. 'Nothing else is all right.' His whisper tickles my cheek. 'But we are."
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"November’s a burn and an ache."
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"The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache."
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"When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain."
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"Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race."
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"We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains."
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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."
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"You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it."
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"Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache."
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"When you have a stomach ache you don't tell your stomach to go away."
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"You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour."
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"... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well."
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"I wish I had no heart, it aches so."
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