Yearning Quotes

391 quotes by 324 authors

To awaken a new longing for holiness: this is the great pastoral challenge that we have before us, if we want to be faithful to… — Unknown Author
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday… — Pope Benedict XVI
Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in… — Pope Benedict XVI
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to… — Mark Twain
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution, and the decision whether… — Unknown Author
It's so much easier to be happy. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, instead of always yearning for… — Meryl Streep
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a… — Russell Brand
I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings. — Patti Smith
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to… — Mary Ruefle
This sense of being made in God's image calls us all constantly to look for it in others and to do what we can to… — Marva Dawn
I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only… — Jaimy Gordon
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was… — Norma Fox Mazer
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections… — Russell M. Nelson
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking… — Peter HÃ¸eg
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness… — Carl Jung
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Vague a l'ame â€” melancholy yearning for the end of the world. — Emile M. Cioran
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by… — Henry Ward Beecher
Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living. — Shekhar Kapur

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