“I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a… — Anna Carey Copy Share Image
“The problem was that the only reality he could see what a nut-brown nymph who could whisper like a song and move… — Frank Lee Raw Honey Copy Share Image
Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard,… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
When it comes to popping pills, probably 90 percent bad. And people say they're not addictive - I still have yearnings for… — Damien Dempsey Copy Share Image
“The emptinesss was a hole that only he could fill. He was the relief. It pulled from every direction, this yearning for… — Jessica Therrien Copy Share Image
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
It was the momentary yielding of a nature that had been disappointed from the dawn of its perceptions, but had not quite… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery:… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us… — Christopher Hitchens 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
“And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part… — Earnest Poole Copy Share Image
“And you who seek to know Me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery:… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime,… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Whoever has given a little thought to God even a momentary yearning for Him that desire shall ultimately save them — Regina Malabago Copy Share Image
There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance… — Helena Christensen Copy Share Image
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“That they dared make a town of this wet and sucking thing that vied with my foot for my boot at every… — Matthew Sharpe Copy Share Image
“Prayer is the pulsation of a yearning, loving heart in tune with the Infinite. It is a message of the soul sent… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination,… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for… — Shirley Hufstedler Copy Share Image
Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human… — Helen LaKelly Hunt Copy Share Image
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
“There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens… — Gaby Dunn Copy Share Image
If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
