Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
“This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the preceding page,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
This is a marvel of the universe: To fling a thought across a stretch of sky-- Some weighty message, or a yearning… — Josephine Preston Peabody Copy Share Image
Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims… — Margaret Cousins Copy Share Image
Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. — Giotto di Bondone Copy Share Image
Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He… — Lucy Stone Copy Share Image
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, they… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness. — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill;… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Sundays are terrible because it is clear that there is no one in charge of the world. And this knowledge leave you… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
