Ache Quotes - Page 7

• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Thinking, Yesterday

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

  Willa Cather

  Heart, Too Much, Alive

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Skeletons, Bridges, Iron

  Christopher Isherwood (1963). “The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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• The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.

  Greg Chappell

  Pain, Live Life, Athlete

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

  Mary Oliver

  Beauty, Needs, Worthy

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• I wanted to pray for an hour, but I keep thinking and thinking, and always sick thoughts, and my head aches - what is the use of praying? - it's only a sin! It is strange, too, that I am not sleepy: in great, too great sorrow, after the first outbursts one is always sleepy. Men condemned to death, they say, sleep very soundly on the last night. And so it must be, it si the law of nature, otherwise their strength would not hold out... I lay down on the sofa but I did not sleep...

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Night, Men

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• I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say — Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, Heart, Giving

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Roots, Teeth, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (2004). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.70, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• So if hunger provokes wailing and wailing brings the breast; if the breast permits sucking and milk suggests its swallow; if swallowing issues in sleep and stomachy comfort, then need, ache, message, object, act, and satisfaction are soon associated like charms on a chain; shortly our wants begin to envision the things which well reduce them, and the organism is finally said to wish.

  William H. Gass

  Sleep, Issues, Wish

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• as we acquire new aches and new pains, our health care is, of necessity, being supplied by internists, cardiologists, dermatologists, podiatrists, urologists, periodontists, gynecologists and psychiatrists, from all of whom we want a second opinion. We want a second opinion that says, don't worry, you are going to live forever.

  Judith Viorst

  Life, Pain, Health

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• Seal my lips on aches and pains. They are increasing, and love of rehearsing them is becoming sweeter as the years go by.

  Rosalind Russell

  Pain, Years, And Love

  Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”

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• I also discovered Pilates when I got pregnant, as people kept saying it's a great way to stay in shape, and now I can't get enough - it's amazing. It helps with aches and pain and, even for non-pregnant people, it's a great way of getting those lean muscles.

  Olivia Wilde

  Pain, People, Shapes

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• What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

  Henry Adams

  Heart, Grieving, Laughing

  Henry Adams, Jacob Claver Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1886-1892”

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• I get an audience personally involved in a song - because I'm involved myself. It's not something I do deliberately: I can't help myself. If the song is a lament at the loss of love, I get an ache in my gut. I feel the loss myself and I cry out the loneliness, the hurt and the pain that I feel.

  Frank Sinatra

  Song, Hurt, Pain

  Source: www.slate.com

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

  Ellis Peters

  Heart, Quality, Youth

  Ellis Peters (2014). “An Excellent Mystery”, p.45, Head of Zeus

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• When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Relief, Trouble, Burden

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1919). “The Works of Mary Roberts Rinehart: Dangerous days”

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• Faith endures as seeing Him who is invisible (Heb. 11:27); endures the disappointments, the hardships, and the heart-aches of life, by recognizing that all comes from the hand of Him who is too wise to err and too loving to be unkind.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Christian, Wise

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• Whence proceeds this weight we lay
  On what detracting people say?
  Their utmost malice cannot make
  Your head, or tooth, or finger ache;
  Nor spoil your shapes, distort your face,
  Or put one feature out of place.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Weight, Shapes

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The Works. Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published. With Memoir of the Author, by Thomas Roscoe. -London, Washbourne 1841”, p.629

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• Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.

  David Richo

  Love, Long, Matter

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.1, Shambhala Publications

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• I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

  R. S. Thomas

  Kings, Passion, Heart

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954" by R. S. Thomas". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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• Let go the lure
  The striving to unmake;
  Behold the truth
  Whenever heart may ache
  There is a glory
  In a great mistake.

  Nathalia Crane

  Letting Go, Mistake, Heart

  "Swear By the Night and Other Poems" by Nathalia Crane, ("Imperfection"), 1936.

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• Churches and trains
  they all look the same to me now
  they shoot you some place
  while we ache to come home somehow.

  Gregory Alan Isakov

  Home, Church, Looks

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• Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Passion, Perfect

  Susan Sontag (2009). “Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The daily clinical experience of thousands of massage therapists, physical therapists, and physicians strongly indicates that most of our common aches and pains - and many other puzzling physical complaints - are actually caused by trigger points, or small contraction knots, in the muscles of the body.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Massage, Physicians

  Clair Davies, Amber Davies (2013). “The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: Your Self-Treatment Guide for Pain Relief”, p.21, New Harbinger Publications

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• The luxurious ache of tired but not weary limbs.

  Margaret Barber

  Running, Tired, Limbs

  Margaret Fairless Barber (1950). “The roadmender: and other writings”

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