Quotes about Ache
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?
— George Eliot
I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.
— Graham Greene
The world's plan always leads us to places of pain, loneliness, and a deep ache for belonging that seems just out of reach.
— Lysa TerKeurst
The enemy uses disappointments to cause so much trouble in an unsettled heart. A heart hungry for something to ease the ache of disappointment is especially susceptible to the most dangerous forms of desire.
— Lysa TerKeurst
For the search for wholeness compels every person, every hour of their lives, whether they know it or not. We ache to be made whole again. And only one Person who ever walked this earth can do this for the heart and soul he created himself.
— John Eldredge
To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!
— Virginia Woolf
All the ache in my heart and the wound in my soul All the tearing apart at saying good-bye All the pain deep inside, like a dam giving way . .
— Chris Fabry
Approached in the right way, marriage can cause us to reevaluate our dependency on other humans for our spiritual nourishment, and direct us to nurture our relationship with God instead. No human being can love us the way we long to be loved; it is just not possible for another human to reach and alleviate the spiritual ache that God has placed in all of us.
— Gary Thomas
With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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.
— Anne Lamott
Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).
— Richard Baxter