Yearning Quotes · Page 8

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

— Bryant H. McGill

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

— Khurram Murad

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

— Cole Porter

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

— Jonah Goldberg

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

— James Patterson

“...an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.”

— Lois Lowry

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

— Mary McLeod Bethune

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

— Homer

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created…

— Kurt Warner

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But…

— Jerry Bridges

“Each has something hidden in his breast. In youthful days that are yet transparent. Yearning... comes softly. Love announces its coming haltingly,…

— Moto Hagio

Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims…

— Margaret Cousins

Unbending never ending tablets of time, record all the yearning. Unfearing all appearing message divine, eases the burning.

— The Beach Boys

I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can…

— Anonymous

[Golfers] are a special kind of moral realist who nips the normal romantic and idealistic yearnings in the bud by proving once…

— Alistair Cooke

“What was this yearning, tearing at her insides like hunger and thirst? It couldn't be love. Love was warm and soft, like…

— Cornelia Funke

“A part of me wished that I was a woman in that moment, yearning that Isaac's seed could take root in me…

— Gideon Rathbone

In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Self-contained,' Gudmund had described him, but what that really meant was that it felt like he'd had a private burden to shoulder…

— Patrick Ness

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine…

— Hugh Hefner

My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and…

— Henry Miller

“He holds her for an eternity. Time cascades into the void of the past. She inhales his scent. Full of man and…

— Laura Kreitzer

Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and…

— Margaret H. Marshall

Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa,…

— Russell Brand

“Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. He stood gazing in wonder…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Our first kiss, the first touch of our heating lips, the yearning reciprocating from both sides, I was lost in everything. But…

— Delicious David

“I cannot really play. Either at piano or at life; never, never have I been able to. I have always been too…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Here the mystery of drinking the cup becomes clear. The coming and leaving of friends, the experiences of love and betrayal, of…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Desire radiated from him. It radiated out into the darkness and seemed to find the four walls of this enclosing place, and…

— Anne Rice

“Oxford It is well that there are palaces of peace And discipline and dreaming and desire, Lest we forget our heritage and…

— C.S. Lewis

“I’m mesmerized by lipstick prints on coffee cups. By the lines of lips against white pottery. By the color chosen by the…

— Jeanette LeBlanc

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

— Kimberly Willis Holt

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.

— William Inge

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

— Giotto di Bondone

part memory part distance remaining mine in the ways that I learn to miss you

— Anonymous

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

— Shekhar Kapur

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

— Gloria Steinem

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

— Alessandro Baricco