Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning… — Peter Matthiessen
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out… — J M Coetzee
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera
But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that… — Sue Miller
I know the anger lies inside of me like I know the beat of my heart and the taste of my spit. It is easier… — Audre Lorde
One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. — Charles Simic
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to… — John Steinbeck
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it? — James Patterson
as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master… — Bell Hooks
I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to… — Bernhard Schlink
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? — Dante Alighieri
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It is as if… — Libba Bray
But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke… — Richard Matheson
After a time I found that I could almost listen to the silence, which had a dimension all of its own. I started to attend… — Karen Armstrong
You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is not a happy thing to… — Isobelle Carmody
She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed… — George Eliot
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same… — Salman Rushdie
Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand… — Elie Wiesel
I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't. — Sarah Dessen
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence… — Federico Garcia Lorca
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced by a steady pulse of… — David Nicholls
The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to… — Khalil Gibran

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