Yearn Quotes

193 Yearn quotes by 165 unique authors

Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some… — Michael Marshall Smith
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn — John Berryman
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is… — Jack Kerouac
Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead… — Milan Kundera
Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness,… — Ellen Hopkins
The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We all yearn in… — Mitch Albom
The boy didn't know what a Personal Legend was. 'It's what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their… — Paulo Coelho
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend.… — Douglas Coupland
I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the… — Philip K. Dick
They yearn for what they fear for. — Dante Alighieri
Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small… — Leonard Cohen
They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. — Albert Camus
I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there. — Jen Lancaster
I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral… — Emily Bronte
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you… — Dean Koontz
Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing… — David Deida
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry,… — Mitch Albom
And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs… — Meg Rosoff
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and… — Ahdaf Soueif
Kate, don't be like that. You know I only did so well because I yearn-see, SAT word- to follow you to college and steal your… — Elizabeth Scott
Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or… — Elizabeth Chandler
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical… — Aberjhani
There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get… — Elizabeth Gilbert

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