Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only… — Jaimy Gordon
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was… — Norma Fox Mazer
When our hearts turn to our ancestors, something changes inside us. We feel part of something greater than ourselves. Our inborn yearnings for family connections… — Russell M. Nelson
The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking… — Peter HÃ¸eg
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness… — Carl Jung
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world. — Emile M. Cioran
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by… — Henry Ward Beecher
Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living. — Shekhar Kapur
Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality. — Plato
Our first and true home was Paradise: a land that is both perfect and eternal. So the yearning for that type of life is a… — Yasmin Mogahed
The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are. — Adyashanti
In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is… — Adyashanti
It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a… — Unknown Author
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God… — Josef Pieper
All too often a family’s spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean… — Lucy Stone
Please take good care of it all, OK? Be an enlightened monarch who treats your domain with reverent responsibility. And make sure you also enjoy… — Rob Brezsny
Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change.... Your sweet spot… — Rob Brezsny
I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you that I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in… — Richard Matheson
In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May… — Heinrich Heine
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack… — Jack Kerouac
We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of… — Carolyn Porco

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