Yearning Quotes

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

— Mason Cooley

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

— Robert Olen Butler

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

— Robert Olen Butler

“Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.”

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“If you yearn to learn, you’ll learn to earn.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“While I was yearning for happiness I became happy.”

— Ogwo David Emenike

“Life would be enough to know what you do in a day.”

— Karl Kristian Flores

“Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!”

— Avijeet Das

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

— Octavio Paz

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

— Israel Shenker

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

— Albert Rosenfeld

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

— Anonymous

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

— Rabindranath Tagore

“I burn for you. Do you know what that is, lass? To feel a yearning that makes you burn both inside and…

— Samantha James

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness.

— Marion Woodman

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“‎Yearning for Allāh and desiring to meet Him is like a breeze that blows through the heart and removes the blaze of…

— Ibn al-Qayyim

But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose…

— Truman Capote

“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye…

— Joe Bolton

“This shouldn’t be happening. I’ve spent many nights pushing aside my memories of her. But in the blink of an eye, here…

— Tricia Newlan

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

— Hugh Mackay

I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read…

— Tatiana Maslany

There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that…

— Simon Critchley

You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a…

— Isobelle Carmody

Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside…

— Richard Wright

And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and…

— Mary Balogh

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love…

— Sarah Doudney

I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes,…

— Sophie Blackall

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Deep patriots don't just sing the song, 'America the Beautiful' and then go home. We actually stick around to defend America’s beauty…

— Van Jones

Let no one pray that they know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“I used to cry to the stars in the sky and begged them to have mercy on me cause I longed for…

— Magdalena Ganowska

There is a deeper truth expressed in the unity of the United States. Implicate in the union of our country is the…

— Dennis Kucinich

“In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me…

— Richard Wright

Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,…

— Russell Brand

“I cannot really play. Either at piano or at life; never, never have I been able to. I have always been too…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Our first kiss, the first touch of our heating lips, the yearning reciprocating from both sides, I was lost in everything. But…

— Delicious David

“Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. He stood gazing in wonder…

— Gustave Flaubert