Ache

Famous quotes containing the word ache:

“The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

“The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“looking for joy, some joy
not to be known outside it
two by two in the ark of
the ache of it.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)