Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

In Rome, I really wanted an Audrey Hepburn Roman Holiday experience, but the Trevi Fountain was crowded, there was a McDonald's at the base of… — Gayle Forman
But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be… — Iain Banks
Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped… — Herta Muller
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want. — Gayle Forman
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. — Wayne Gerard Trotman
The goblins want girls who dream so hard about being pretty their yearning leaves a palpable trail, a scent goblins can follow like sharks on… — Laini Taylor
To be born means being compelled to choose an era, a place, a life. To exist here, now, means to lost the possibility of being… — Hayao Miyazaki
The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet… — Mark Twain
This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more… — Ilchi Lee
Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. — Robert Olen Butler
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a… — Henry David Thoreau
Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore… — Epicurus
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
To most theistic believers, human life can have no meaning in a universe without God. Quite sincerely, and with understandable yearning for a meaning to… — Victor J. Stenger
I feel that faith and feminism have a deep relationship to each other and that both are responses to the deep human yearning for connection… — Helen LaKelly Hunt
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings, Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing, To fork out… — Ebenezer Elliott
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is… — Ram Dass
People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope. — Jacqueline Novogratz
As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on… — Douglas Coupland
Mythopoeia has taken off in the Indian diaspora because there has been a change in readership from a mature audience to a younger one. This… — Ashwin Sanghi
I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a dog, who understands what is said to him,… — Bayard Taylor
I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing. — Kimberly Willis Holt
Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to… — Charles B. Rangel
The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human… — Richard Jefferies
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream… — Virginia Postrel

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