Heartache
noun
A feeling of great sadness or emotional pain.
His heartache was evident when he spoke about his lost love.
Often appears as...
- heartache and pain
- cause heartache
noun
A thing that causes great sadness or emotional pain.
Their divorce was a heartache for the entire family.
Often appears as...
- source of heartache
- bring heartache
noun
A feeling of great sadness or emotional pain.
His heartache was evident when he spoke about his lost love.
Often appears as...
- heartache and pain
- cause heartache
noun
A thing that causes great sadness or emotional pain.
Their divorce was a heartache for the entire family.
Often appears as...
- source of heartache
- bring heartache
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Heartache expresses deep emotional pain, often from relationships or significant personal loss.
She felt a profound heartache after her best friend moved away.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
While 'ache' often refers to physical pain, heartache is strictly emotional, not a medical condition.
Listening to their breakup songs filled him with heartache.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Heart
The 'heart' in heartache is a symbolic reference to emotions, not the actual organ.
The news of the tragedy brought heartache to the tight-knit community.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Heartache expresses deep emotional pain, often from relationships or significant personal loss.
She felt a profound heartache after her best friend moved away.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
While 'ache' often refers to physical pain, heartache is strictly emotional, not a medical condition.
Listening to their breakup songs filled him with heartache.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Heart
The 'heart' in heartache is a symbolic reference to emotions, not the actual organ.
The news of the tragedy brought heartache to the tight-knit community.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Heartache expresses deep emotional pain, often from relationships or significant personal loss.
She felt a profound heartache after her best friend moved away.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Physical
While 'ache' often refers to physical pain, heartache is strictly emotional, not a medical condition.
Listening to their breakup songs filled him with heartache.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Heart
The 'heart' in heartache is a symbolic reference to emotions, not the actual organ.
The news of the tragedy brought heartache to the tight-knit community.
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Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things. Always apologize when you've done something wrong, but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining. Your voice is small, but don't ever stop singing. And when they finally hand you heartache,
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Falling in love is the...
and he was my first real love, and I had no idea how or if I could make a life without him. So I turned to science. I researched everything I could find about the science of romantic love, and I think I was hoping that it might somehow inoculate me from heartache.
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But with this love comes heartache. Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish. Spearfishing took out the large species, midnight blue and rainbow parrotfish are now exceedingly rare,
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Diana Nyad: Extreme...
I wouldn't mind if every one of you came up on this stage tonight and told us how you've gotten over the big disappointments of your lives. Because we've all had them, haven't we? We've all had a heartache. And so my journey now
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Billy Graham:...
even in our own families. We find ourselves in the paralyzing grip of self-destructive habits we can't break. Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
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resource she could nature's bitter and cruel consolation prize polar bear wandered off alone in her heartache as the Queen stood protectively over her own two cubs I
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Find a way. You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you, as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil,
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Love -- you're doing it...
that weakens the feelings of attachment. By the way, there's a program on MTV already in which seduction teachers treat heartache as a disease.
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And now we have climate change too. You know, I took the position as Chief because I couldn't take the heartache that I was witnessing anymore.
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How to practice...
Loneliness creates a deep psychological wound, one that distorts our perceptions and scrambles our thinking. It makes us believe that those around us care much less than they actually do. It make us really afraid to reach out, because why set yourself up for rejection and heartache
Video examples
If I should have a...
Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things. Always apologize when you've done something wrong, but don't you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining. Your voice is small, but don't ever stop singing. And when they finally hand you heartache,
Video examples
Falling in love is the...
and he was my first real love, and I had no idea how or if I could make a life without him. So I turned to science. I researched everything I could find about the science of romantic love, and I think I was hoping that it might somehow inoculate me from heartache.
Video examples
A coral reef love story...
But with this love comes heartache. Now that groupers and snappers are woefully overfished, fishermen are targeting parrotfish. Spearfishing took out the large species, midnight blue and rainbow parrotfish are now exceedingly rare,
Video examples
Diana Nyad: Extreme...
I wouldn't mind if every one of you came up on this stage tonight and told us how you've gotten over the big disappointments of your lives. Because we've all had them, haven't we? We've all had a heartache. And so my journey now
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Billy Graham:...
even in our own families. We find ourselves in the paralyzing grip of self-destructive habits we can't break. Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
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Safari Live - Day 218 PIPE...
resource she could nature's bitter and cruel consolation prize polar bear wandered off alone in her heartache as the Queen stood protectively over her own two cubs I
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Never, ever give up PIPE...
Find a way. You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you, as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil,
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Love -- you're doing it...
that weakens the feelings of attachment. By the way, there's a program on MTV already in which seduction teachers treat heartache as a disease.
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Killer Red Fox – Ep. 5 PIPE...
And now we have climate change too. You know, I took the position as Chief because I couldn't take the heartache that I was witnessing anymore.
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Susan L. Taylor
American Editor
We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds.
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Rashida Jones
American Actress
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
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John Lee Hooker
American Musician
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.
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Willie Nelson
American Musician
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
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Shawn Michaels
American Wrestler
Don't be afraid to be who you really are. Enjoy it and don't take it and yourself so seriously. I probably wouldn't have listened, but if I did, I would have saved myself some heartache along the way.
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Judy Collins
American Musician
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
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Erykah Badu
American Musician
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
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Red Skelton
American Comedian
No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
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Doug Collins
American Athlete
I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.
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Susan L. Taylor
American Editor
We must learn how to live in the space of inner peace in our everyday lives. This takes consistent, conscious effort because I know so many black women are hurting and sad, and we don't easily express our heartache or show our wounds.
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Rashida Jones
American Actress
I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.
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John Lee Hooker
American Musician
I have heartaches, I have blues. No matter what you got, the blues is there. 'Cause that's all I know - the blues. And I can sing the blues so deep until you can have this room full of money and I can give you the blues.
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Willie Nelson
American Musician
A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.
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Shawn Michaels
American Wrestler
Don't be afraid to be who you really are. Enjoy it and don't take it and yourself so seriously. I probably wouldn't have listened, but if I did, I would have saved myself some heartache along the way.
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Judy Collins
American Musician
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
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Erykah Badu
American Musician
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.
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Red Skelton
American Comedian
No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.
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Doug Collins
American Athlete
I've always said you have to go through a lot of heartache in life to feel joy.
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