Yearning Quotes

It takes effort to say no when our heart and brains and guts and, most important, pride are yearning to say yes. Practice. — Cole Harmonson

After all, what are any of us after but the conviction of belonging? — Wallace Stegner

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy. — William Hazlitt

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung. — Homer

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. — Bryant H. McGill

Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness? — Jocelyn Gibb

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. — Henry David Thoreau

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts. — Tom Hooper

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning. — John Lancaster Spalding

The most potent magics are tied to human truths: beauty and passion and yearning and fortitude and valor and empathy. — Brent Weeks

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. — Emma Lazarus

Ay me! sad hours seem long. — William Shakespeare

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed. — Boyd K. Packer

There were so many things mingled in his expression
yearning, disappointment, and yes, love. — Claire Cross

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul. — Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons. — Andrea Bouchaud

I'm burning in despair
Love which you distanced from me
Return once again
I'll forgive you again
Return, Page 19 — Delicious David

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning. — Patrick Rothfuss

Aberystwyth (n.)
A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. — Douglas Adams

Life is yearning for the adventure of your footsteps. — Bryant McGill

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope. — Jacqueline Novogratz

Justice is like the kingdom of God
it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. — George Eliot

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more. — Richie Norton

It made me wonder if there is much difference in our hearts between love and grief. they both have a yearning that seems unable to be satisfied. — Suzanne Kelman

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. — Charles Lamb

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level. — William A. Henry III

Love transcends all obstacles in her path Insisting she finds her way Leaving her troubles behind Yearning to be loved someday — Pamela Sparkman

He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.
She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit! — Avijeet Das

To call it yearning would be like calling the ocean water. — R.A. Nelson

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good. — Albert Rosenfeld

Dark blue, heavy with emotion, gazed up unblinkingly into wide chestnut. Every movement, every yearning was reflected between the couple's eyes. — Sylvain Reynard

I miss you like the mismatching sock I can't find. You're out there somewhere. — Karen Quan

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith

Prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart. — Sophy Burnham

I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine. — Coco J. Ginger

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? — John Waters

Human personality is created with the restless yearning for communion with the unseen but present personal God (Augustine, Conf. 1.1). — Thomas C. Oden

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable. — Sue Monk Kidd

They say "ya gotta stay hungry" ...
Hey Baby ... I'm just about starvin' tonight! — Bruce Springsteen

Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy. — Emmanuel D'Alzon

I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am. — Melina Marchetta

Patriotism is about a desire for progress, not a yearning for repetition. — Gina Barreca

Maybe nothing could extinguish the yearning of human love; maybe it travelled on for ever, through the darkness. Like the light from dead stars. — S.K. Tremayne

The problem was that the only reality he could see what a nut-brown nymph who could whisper like a song and move like a river of honey. — Frank Lee

The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning. — Gail Godwin

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. — Israel Shenker

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning. — Hafez Ibrahim

What if we feel a yearning to which no breast answers? — Henry David Thoreau

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools? — Colman McCarthy

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst. — Billy Graham

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world. — Ralph Marston

Oh, do you understand what I mean? Have you ever felt that about the Moon? Have you ever ached with the sheer beauty of it? — James Lusarde

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning. — Gerhard Richter

A familiar story, Marya instructs herself - a woman yearning to be completed in a man, by way of a man. As if she hadn't a soul of her own. — Joyce Carol Oates

Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It's all greedy yearning. — Sarah Noffke

His touch thrilled her, excited her and left her with a yearning to do anything, and everything, — Mina Carter

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. — Lionel Shriver

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. — Lillian Gish

I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal. — Richard Matheson

All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance. — Erich Maria Remarque

Yearning for love made her feel like a cat that was always twining around ankles, meowing Pet me, pet me, look at me, love me. — Laini Taylor

Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off. — Annette Vaillancourt

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. — Octavio Paz

If there is passion, let me feel its heat.
I want my heart to beat fast,
my breath raspy, my skin to burn. — Susie Clevenger

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth — Rabindranath Tagore

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there. — Orson Scott Card

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. — Sharon Salzberg

I didn't need to think of myself as a walleye drifting along in a current somewhere, just waiting for my hook. I was yearning for it. * — Emily Fridlund

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone. — Anna Carey

I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people. — George Osborne

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude — John J. Geddes

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. — Cole Porter

Perhaps it is a secret yearning of all Hallmark employees to use the phrase 'you big fat pain in the butt' in an anniversary card. — Stephan Pastis

Keep striving and searching for greater realization. Through that yearning the problems of execution will be solved. — John Sloan

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. — Clarice Lispector

As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my senses.
Tango — Kurt Vonnegut

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. — Iris Murdoch

He is a unicorn. I want to gently capture him and bring him back to my lab for research. — Amanda Mosher

An urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love. — Lois Lowry

The center of our story is the tension between the yearning to create a home and the urge to get out of it. I — Gail Collins

But the walls of my resolve
mortared with stubbornness
have been breached
by circumstances
I cannot handle alone. — Susie Clevenger

Hope is determination, you think. Hope is desperation. Hope is a yearning you can't deny. And hope is just plain old-fashioned insanity. — Hal Duncan

She stared at them with yearning. Part of her wanted to be a swan. The other part wanted to eat one. — George R R Martin

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love. — Ram Dass

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live. — Mahatma Gandhi

Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination, no final stop, except death. — Siri Hustvedt

In your yearning you have made me into that which I am not. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth. — Sathya Sai Baba

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul. — Dave Earley

I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night. — Chloe Thurlow

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens

Why is love intensified by absence? — Audrey Niffenegger