Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it. — Jeffrey Zaslow Copy Share Image
Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“We stare at each other for a few seconds, then we both look away as if we've been zapped by lightning.” — Tricia Newlan Copy Share Image
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“For the first time in years, she felt a yearning for something different, something real. Something more than the life she had.” — Talena Winters Copy Share Image
I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a… — Matthew Perry Copy Share Image
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope. — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to… — Anthony Hopkins 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
“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
“I forced myself to take another bite of bread, chewing casually. But inside I felt stricken, filled with unexpected yearning. And I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot… — Richard Armitage 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
My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It gave me no pleasure to see people drink in my opinions if they seemed ignorant of Jesus Christ and the value… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“God recognizes and respects our independent will and the choices all of us make. He does not force us to seek His… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
“She turned back to her sandwich. And here, of all things, was desire again. (She could have put the palm of her… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“A YEARNING HEART My heart is hurting right now, I don't know what to do, Father say something to me, I don't… — Euginia Herlihy 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
“Though parted from all his soul held dear, and though often yearning for what lay beyond, still was he never positively and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb,… — Paul Bowles Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“No one is mocked with the yearning for that which they have no ability to attain.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Christmas has the waiting heart, often anxious for temporal desires, yearning for Jesus' presence above all.” — Allene vanOirschot Copy Share Image
I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Every human being on the face of the earth is yearning to be understood and have relationships. — Billy Donovan 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
“The yearning self is an empty vessel – fill it with knowledge and you may find what you seek!!” — Iyathurai Aingaratheepan Copy Share Image
