“the sapphire depth of my own love...startles and warms and wounds my soul.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
Improvisation is the expression of the accumulated yearnings, dreams, and wisdom of the soul. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
People are always yearning for a bigger story to be part of, it's not enough to live our own private lives. — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor. — JPEGMAFIA Copy Share Image
“I’d spent years replacing her lips with so many others, all in an attempt to heal the scars she left on mine.” — Sarah A. Bailey Copy Share Image
“As I spoke of another's love and looked into the wide, blue windows of her soul, a rich, insistent yearning flooded my… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Autumn. A season. A girl. A memory. Autumn. Her eyes twinkled with mischief. Her smile was infectious. Her laugh was a cure.… — Akiah Watts Copy Share Image
“There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so… — Barbara Lazear Ascher Copy Share Image
My language and my sensibility are yearning to admit a kind of religious or transcendent dimension. But then there's the reality: there's… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning… — Patrick MacGill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Like a bird, Tasha sees acutely on the periphery, and for a moment, before fear sets in, this feels somewhat prophetic. The… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing… — Dave Earley Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“And in the depth of her eyes were all these years—seasons they’d known, paths they’d trod. Slowly he entered her again. Everything… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
“I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
Woe to the heart of this one, the one who feels his touch when she sleeps and craves his voice in her… — Kristiana Evans Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Listen carefully. Listen and you'll hear everything you need to know. a nightmare is a different case entirely, it's a box of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“As the days went by, the evolution of LIKE into LOVE was accelerated. White Fang himself began to grow aware of it,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
“Evie?” “I want this, Jack! Kiss me.” He did, briefly muting the Reaper, rekindling my excitement. But Death was yelling. —NEVER, CREATURE!—… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
A surprise to others, but not to me, since I've watched this closely for eight years now, is how George W. Bush… — Paul Kengor Copy Share Image
I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image