Yearn Quotes

193 Yearn quotes by 165 unique authors

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end. — Czeslaw Milosz
I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in… — Cormac McCarthy
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we… — Amy Carmichael
Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the… — Stephen Hawking
My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more. — Rick Riordan
And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave… — Will Durant
We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory… — David Gemmell
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth… — Stephen Jay Gould
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. — Alice Hoffman
When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn… — Philippa Gregory
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little.… — Sylvia Plath
A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being… — Ursula K. Le Guin
What men yearn for they often destroy. — Alice Hoffman
To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to… — Etgar Keret
We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have. — Mitch Albom
And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone. — Lois Lowry
I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection — Tupac Shakur
There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt… — Ilsa J. Bick
Wealth is not an absolute. It is relative to desire. Every time we yearn for something we cannot afford, we grow poorer, whatever our resources.… — Alain de Botton
How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it — Judith McNaught
The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. — Morris Fishbein
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we… — Robert Breault
Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more. — Unknown Author
I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and… — Steven Holl

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