Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your… — Neal Shusterman
Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The… — Unknown Author
It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking… — John Galsworthy
Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so… — Robert Jordan
Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other… — Christopher Hitchens
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves? — John Waters
I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things… — Pete Doherty
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of… — Umberto Eco
yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect. — David Levithan
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the… — Jeanette Winterson
Maybe they would look at each other and feel some odd yearning, but neither of them would know why. They would want to stop, but… — Ann Brashares
God is the one who satisfies the passion for justice, the longing for spirituality, the hunger for relationship, the yearning for beauty. And God, the… — N. T. Wright
Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and… — Mary Balogh
Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or of a great… — Caroline Knapp
Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. — Robert A. Heinlein
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a… — David Foster Wallace
Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning. — Patrick Rothfuss
I could not imagine living away from Sevenwaters, away from all that was so much a part of me. Maybe, if you cared enough about… — Juliet Marillier
I commit her to memory. When I'm alone, I feel a strange yearning, the hunger of a man fasting not because he believes but because… — Mohsin Hamid
I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a… — Cheryl Strayed
Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?… — Julian Barnes
Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by… — George Eliot
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I. — Greta Garbo

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