Yearning Quotes
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Yearning Quotes & Sayings
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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
Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.
— Bryant H. McGill
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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
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
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 expressionyearning, disappointment, and yes, love. — Claire Cross
Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
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{...]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 Godit is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. — George Eliot
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
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
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 longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.
— Patti Smith
I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine.
— Coco J. Ginger
Human personality is created with the restless yearning for communion with the unseen but present personal God (Augustine, Conf. 1.1).
— Thomas C. Oden
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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 resolvemortared with stubbornness
have been breached
by circumstances
I cannot handle alone. — Susie Clevenger
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
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
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