“A friend... sort of. Ren watches me like I'm a cookie jar he wouldn't mind being caught with his hands in.” — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.” — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit. — Ernest L. Boyer Copy Share Image
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
“Being human means yearning for more than subsistence. As much as food or shelter, we require hope.” — Jessica Bruder 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
I think that my early poems were probably more concerned with time passing because of unfulfilled desires or yearnings. Now, I feel… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for… — Shirley Hufstedler Copy Share Image
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the… — Mary Balogh 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
I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human… — Helen LaKelly Hunt Copy Share Image
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him… — John Galsworthy 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
I believe that hunger for a 'lost dimension' of experience is a natural yearning in all of us, and it doesn't go… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
“All those films in which the woman doesn't get her man, those films of yearning unsatisfied, hearts unappeased. You like them; I've… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
Do not yield to Satan's enticements; rather, stand firm for truth. The unsatisfied yearnings of the soul will not be met by… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“His yearning for new and faraway places, his desire for freedom, relief and oblivion was as he admitted to himself, an urge… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I voluntarily left my lovers, since I felt that I am no more wanted, I left because their heart likes separation. of… — MoulaY AbdallaH Boulaasair Copy Share Image
The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their… — Paul Fussell 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
but art is not relative to perfection in any tangible sense. It is our coarse antennae trembling blindly as it traces the… — Laird Barron Copy Share Image
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I do not know what infinite yearning possesses you, so that you are driven to a perilous, lonely search for some goal… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“For feverish mornings after he left, she lay awake in that guest room in their house, in the rumples of the sheet… — Kunal Sen Copy Share Image
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm out, I have a bit of a yearning to be in my house, to be able to shut the door… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
