When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Theres a wideness in Gods mercy I cannot find in my own And He keeps His fire burning To melt this heart… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
“I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Every moment in your life is unique. You will never have two alike... Never. This is the science of living: When you… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless… — Cris Mazza Copy Share Image
“Oh Moon, sweet, sweet Moon, I want to be naked on you. I want to be like a flower growing on your… — James Lusarde Copy Share Image
“As my voice died away I became conscious of the voice of another woman two tables away. I couldn't hear what she… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“Now discontent nibbled at him - not painfully, but constantly. Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness… — Mehek Bassi 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
In my youth and comparative inexperience I had always regarded the yearning and pangs of love as the worst torture that could… — Stefan Zweig 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
...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
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“Will I ever be done, transformed in the past tense, or will I always be transforming, better and better until I die?” — Carmen Maria Machado Copy Share Image
Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
“My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a… — A.D. Orbit Copy Share Image
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
