I don't yearn to be a child again.

“yearn for halcyon days of yore”

— John Green

“To adore one has to yearn.”

— Will Advise

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

— Julie Burchill

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

— Sebastian Horsley

And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

— Lois Lowry

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was a smile that…

— Joss Alexander

“He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.”

— Anne Perry

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea,…

— Alain Ducasse

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my…

— Nick Park

“A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.

— Nicole Kidman