Yearning Quotes · Page 4

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

— Cole Porter

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

— Homer

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

“...an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.”

— Lois Lowry

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

— William Inge

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

— Giotto di Bondone

part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you

— Anonymous

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

— Ben Harper

I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is…

— Bayard Taylor

As with other movements of the spirit, simplicity can be both a cause and an effect. As a spiritual path develops, so…

— Jennifer Kavanagh

Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or…

— Marilyn Ferguson

I look for that earnest yearning in talent, you may not be the best at what you do, but if you have…

— Shakti Mohan

“A good story, well told, makes you realize you were yearning for something you had no name for, something you didn’t even…

— F.S. Michaels

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right…

— Russell Brand

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard…

— James Wolcott

When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He…

— Nicholas Kristof

It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of…

— Meryl Streep

I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a…

— James A. Michener

Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only…

— Dan Graham

The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise,…

— Umberto Eco

To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for…

— Victor J. Stenger

“Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our…

— Gregory David Roberts

Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they…

— Julian Barnes

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

“They were very bitter tears: everybody in the world seemed so hard and unkind to Maggie: there was no indulgence, no fondness,…

— George Eliot

“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know…

— Ernest Becker

“Longing on a large scale is what makes history. This is just a kid with a local yearning but he is part…

— Don Delillo Underworld

“A beast is just what you want. A big, dark medieval brute to throw you to the ground, tear the clothes from…

— Tessa Dare

“MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your feet with my tears, For I know…

— Suzy Kassem

“The yearning sadness of a farewell stole plaintively across her heart as she recalled those sweet sessions when she stood with him…

— Walter Greenwood

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

— Shekhar Kapur

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I was used to yearning for you. After you returned my love, I felt unsettled and vaguely aggrieved.

— Mason Cooley

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

— Alessandro Baricco

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

— Gloria Steinem

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.

— Jain

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti