Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder. — Mary Balogh
We are the yearning creatures of this planet. — Robert Olen Butler
I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is… — Ntozake Shange
My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my… — Khalil Gibran
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest… — Hall Caine
The outcome of my days is always the same; an infinite desire for what one never gets; a void one cannot fill; an utter yearning… — Eugene Delacroix
My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch… — Marilyn French
The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or 'sweetness. — Marion Woodman
The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for… — Petr Skrabanek
Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God’s. But our efforts count, even though like Simeon we only stretch out our arms in the… — Eberhard Arnold
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life,… — Patrick MacGill
When trees mature, it is fair and moral that they are cut for man's use, as they would soon decay and return to the earth.… — George Nakashima
The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate… — Judith Viorst
Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On… — Margaret Cousins
An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts… — Mac Anderson
When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities… — Josephine Hart
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to have been so… — Jerry Saltz
Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him,… — Henry Corbin
Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as a recipient has been compromised… — Caroline Knapp
Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth. — Adyashanti
I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting… — Marlin K. Jensen
One of the great injustices in fiction is that on the whole people with romantic yearnings have romantic faces. But in real life it's not… — Julian Fellowes
The dual substance of Christ- the yearning, so human, so superhuman, of man to attain God... has always been a deep inscrutable mystery to me.… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is… — Ernest Becker

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