“Why do humans use words that don’t mean what they actually mean?” — Arabella Sveinsdottir Copy Share Image
Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Many researchers say the dominant emotion experienced after loss is yearning or searching. And while you might feel more anger early on,… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks.… — Mary Garden Copy Share Image
In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a "Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for… — Bob Hartley Copy Share Image
I am for peace and all kinds of ways because the total reality is that you never quite, at least in my… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and… — Laura Kreitzer Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and… — Margaret H. Marshall Copy Share Image
We know desire is rooted in absence and yearning. What you don't have is often ten times richer than what you actually… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
“A beast is just what you want. A big, dark medieval brute to throw you to the ground, tear the clothes from… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a local yearning but he is part… — Don Delillo Underworld Copy Share Image
While the fictional realm as such allows for the obstacles of present-day politics to be altered, neglected, and negotiated at will, sci-fi… — Larissa Sansour Copy Share Image
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There’s a dream I keep having,“ Sheridan whispered into the telephone. “The dream has always been the same—until tonight.” “And what happened… — Phillip White Copy Share Image
“The yearning sadness of a farewell stole plaintively across her heart as she recalled those sweet sessions when she stood with him… — Walter Greenwood Copy Share Image
There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created… — Kurt Warner Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
“Each has something hidden in his breast. In youthful days that are yet transparent. Yearning... comes softly. Love announces its coming haltingly,… — Moto Hagio Copy Share Image
Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims… — Margaret Cousins Copy Share Image
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to… — Kristen Callihan Copy Share Image
“Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I… — Juhani Peltonen Copy Share Image
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Unbending never ending tablets of time, record all the yearning. Unfearing all appearing message divine, eases the burning. — The Beach Boys Copy Share Image
I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
