But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“When I was in junior high, I used to think I would turn out to be one of the guys, and boys… — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was… — Isha Judd Copy Share Image
Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning. — Tyrone Guthrie 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
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
Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“As Raimon and Desire listened, Aimeric sang of Carenza's beauty. He sang of the oaths he had given to his lord, the… — Lisa Goldstein Copy Share Image
In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous… — Heinrich Heine 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
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to… — Shari Arison Copy Share Image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
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
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
I say this with care, but I wonder if a fierce, insistent desire for a miracle - even a physical healing -… — Philip Yancey 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
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
