Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of… — Geoff Mulgan
We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for… — Dean Koontz
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You… — Louise Erdrich
I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing… — Mahatma Gandhi
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions… — Cornel West
There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is… — Bell Hooks
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It… — Diane Setterfield
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without… — Alex Haley
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman… — Charlotte Bronte
Girl lithe and tawny, the sun that forms the fruits, that plumps the grains, that curls seaweeds filled your body with joy, and your luminous… — Pablo Neruda
In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,… — Cormac McCarthy
I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the… — Emily Bronte
Why is love intensified by absence? — Audrey Niffenegger
It's true: Everyone needs a reason to stay alive -- someone who justifies your existence. Someone who loves you. Not beyond all reason. Just loves… — Geraldine McCaughrean
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in… — Richard Wright
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking… — Haruki Murakami
It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left… — D. H. Lawrence
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's… — Margaret Atwood
But I believe the words entered me and changed me and still work in me. The words eat me and sustain me. And when I'm… — Charles Frazier
Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the… — Rohinton Mistry
But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a… — Truman Capote
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together… — Hermann Hesse
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied Who told me time would ease me of my pain! I miss him in the weeping… — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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