Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
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 am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning… — Patrick MacGill 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
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
“And a while later: 'It is a strange sort of pain.' Softly. 'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect Zgod plants these yearlings in us so we'll… — Sue Monk Kidd 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
“What will history’s verdict be about our time?" ~ Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos Yearning like a man yearns for fire on cold winter… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“And in the depth of her eyes were all these years—seasons they’d known, paths they’d trod. Slowly he entered her again. Everything… — Sherry Thomas Copy Share Image
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
“[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
“Every night I empty my heart, but by morning it's full again. Slow droplets of you seep in through the night's soft… — Shamim Sarif Copy Share Image
In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“We are doomed to remain incomplete in our present existence. Our hopes and deepest longings will remain nothing but just that; Our… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“A beast is just what you want. A big, dark medieval brute to throw you to the ground, tear the clothes from… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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
Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return — Milan Kundera 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
“I can't tell whether a revived man would appreciate his second chance or yearn for the stolen serenity.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“Christmas has the waiting heart, often anxious for temporal desires, yearning for Jesus' presence above all.” — Allene vanOirschot Copy Share Image
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