Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so… — Barbara Lazear Ascher Copy Share Image
“Are we alike In that in-betweenness? Can he see, When I smile my blue eyes back At his brown ones, The country-city-woman-girl… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more,… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
“In fact, this could be the most important thing we ever learn about God– that he yearns for relationship with us... We… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often… — Brené Brown 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
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Happiness is our one ultimate end. Boil it right the way down, reduce all those motivational drivers, and sitting right there at… — Simon Pont Copy Share Image
“IT’S NOT THAT ANYONE CAN BE A HERO, BUT THAT A HERO CAN COME FROM ANYWHERE. BUT THE KEY IS THAT THEY… — FILM CRIT HULK Copy Share Image
I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was… — Isha Judd Copy Share Image
“And you who seek to know me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery:… — Doreen Valiente Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these,… — Emma Lazarus Copy Share Image
“He had no idea what missing was. Missing was lying in the dampness of your tears night after night. Missing was a… — Denise Hunter Copy Share Image
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing… It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted… — Stephanie Laurens Copy Share Image
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage Copy Share Image
When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“I vow I am, and always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or anyone else… — Charlotte Featherstone Copy Share Image
“It is rooted deep in your bones; the water calls out to you until it causes you physical pain unless you come… — Nadia Scrieva Copy Share Image
“She didn’t even know what she’d do when she got back to New Orleans, but inside she felt a yearning to shove… — Sarah Rae Copy Share Image
The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; so am I.” — Greta Garbo Copy Share Image
“When you surrender, you live in eager anticipation of the surprise. The dual weights of yearning and despair are cast off.” — Annette Vaillancourt Copy Share Image
As a Korean American, I grew up yearning to see actors that looked like me. On the rare occasions I saw an… — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
