“Will I ever be done, transformed in the past tense, or will I always be transforming, better and better until I die?” — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
Each person with his or her history of being accepted or rejected, with his or her past history of inner pain and… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“Oh, do you understand what I mean? Have you ever felt that about the Moon? Have you ever ached with the sheer… — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
“But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering. — Anais Nin 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
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something. — Parker Posey Copy Share Image
Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living. — Shekhar Kapur 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
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act. — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Finn leaped from his horse to greet Enna, and she entwined herself into him, their arms around each other, their faces close.… — Shannon Hale 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
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning. — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm… — Roxane Gay 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
In order to know how to talk, you have to know what to say. In order to know what to say, you… — Neil Clark Warren Copy Share Image
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
