Heart Ache Quotes

• To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Sleep, Heart

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• That which tears open our souls, those holes that splatter our sight, may actually become the thin, open places to see through the mess of this place to the heart-aching beauty beyond. To Him. To the God whom we endlessly crave.

  Ann Voskamp

  Heart, Sight, Soul

  Ann Voskamp (2011). “One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are”, p.22, Zondervan

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• It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

  Mark Twain

  Spring, Heart, Names

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.193, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• It's late at night and I can't sleep.
  Missing you just runs too deep.
  Oh I can't breathe, thinking of your smile.
  Every kiss I can't forget, this aching heart ain't broken yet.
  Oh God I wish I could make you see
  Cause I know this flame isn't dying
  So nothing can stop me from trying
  Baby you know that
  Maybe it's time for miracles
  Cause I ain't giving up on love
  You know that maybe it's time for miracles
  Cause I ain't giving up on love
  No I ain't giving up on us

  Adam Lambert

  Long Distance Relationship, Running, Thinking Of You

  Song: Time For Miracles, Album: For Your Entertainment, 2009

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• That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

  Albert Pike

  Wisdom, Heart, Ignorance

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• Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

  Samuel Richardson

  Beauty, Husband, Heart

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• My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.

  John Keats

  Pain, Heart, Sadness

  'Ode to a Nightingale' (1820) st. 1

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• I would like to be able to breathe— to be able to love her by memory or fidelity. But my heart aches. I love you continuously, intensely.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Love You, Heart

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• He's charmed by her as if she were some fairy!" continued Arabella. "See how he looks round at her, and lets his eyes rest on her. I am inclined to think that she don't care for him quite so much as he does for her. She's not a particular warm-hearted creature to my thinking, though she cares for him pretty middling much-- as much as she's able to; and he could make her heart ache a bit if he liked to try--which he's too simple to do.

  Thomas Hardy

  Eye, Heart, Thinking

  Thomas Hardy (2012). “Jude the Obscure”, p.220, Courier Corporation

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• I know nothing and my heart aches

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Ache, Knows

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.114, Profile Books

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• It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Heart, Mind, Matter

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2001). “Asleep”, p.39, Grove Press

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• Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache

  Kate Winslet

  Heart, Joy, Ache

  Song: What If

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• I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

  Robert Frost

  Heart, Abode

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

  Bil Keane

  Heart, Waiting, Bitter

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• Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

  Frederick Douglass

  Song, Heart, Sorrow

  Frederick Douglass (1994). “Autobiographies”, p.24, Library of America

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

  Emily Giffin

  Loyalty, Heart, Eye

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• I'm still willing to continue living with the burden of this memory. Even though this is a painful memory, even though this memory makes my heart ache. Sometimes I almost want to ask God to let me forget this memory. But as long as I try to be strong and not run away, doing my best, there will finally be someday...there will be finally be someday I can overcome this painful memory. I believe I can. I believe I can do it. There is no memory that can be forgotten, there is not that kind of memory. Always in my heart.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Running, Strong, Memories

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• Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Prayer, Fear

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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• In all cases of heart-ache, the application of another man's disappointment draws out the pain and allays the irritation.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Letting Go, Pain, Disappointment

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• Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.

  Richard Roeper

  Children, Dad, Heart

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• A super-legislator body is not what the court was intended to be, When I ponder our country and its greatness, its weakness, its potential, my heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization, less finger-pointing, less bitterness, less mindless partisanship.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Greatness

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• My heart aches for less divisiveness, less polarization Less mindless partisanship, which at times sounds almost hateful to the ear of Americans. How we conduct ourselves and how we treat you, Judge Roberts, can be a great start toward reconciliation in our country.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Heart, Judging

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• Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dance, Heart, Dancing

  Walter Savage Landor, Marguerite Blessington (Countess of), John Francis Mariani (1973). “The letters of Walter Savage Landor to Marguerite, Countess of Blessington”

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• O, if my husband could only love me even a little and not seem to be perfectly indifferent to any sensation of that kind... O my poor aching heart when shall it rest its burden only on the Lord.

  Emmeline B. Wells

  Husband, Heart, Littles

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