Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real… — John Connolly
Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing? — Richard Yates
When a woman is frozen of feeling, when she can no longer feel herself, when her blood, her passion, no longer reach the extremities of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Finn leaped from his horse to greet Enna, and she entwined herself into him, their arms around each other, their faces close. Thoug they did… — Shannon Hale
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the… — George Eliot
In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could… — Richard Wright
The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so… — Justina Chen
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape. — Christopher Hitchens
Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of… — Galt Niederhoffer
For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world… — Gregory David Roberts
To die of yearning for something you will never experience — Alessandro Baricco
I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am. — Melina Marchetta
Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two… — Gustave Flaubert
In matters of religion a skeptical mind is not a higher manifestation of virtue than is a believing heart, and analytical deconstruction in the field… — Jeffrey R. Holland
There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original… — Mark Epstein
And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head… — Mary Balogh
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have. — Portia de Rossi
Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in… — Emily Giffin
There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read… — Diane Setterfield
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present… — Gary Shteyngart
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for. — Douglas Adams
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present… — Peter Straub

Who Wrote These Yearning Quotes

324 authors contributed a total of 391 Yearning Quotes, led by these top contributors: