Yearning Quotes

391 Yearning quotes by 324 unique authors

The mind is still haunted with its old unconscious ways; it broods on lost authorities; and the yearning, the deep and hollowing yearning for divine… — Julian Jaynes
Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life. — Khurram Murad
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure… — William Moulton Marston
Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning… — Rainer Maria Rilke
We must learn to separate need from greed...We must not allow our yearnings to exceed our earnings. — Thomas S. Monson
Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting. — John of the Cross
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man. — Pope Benedict XVI
What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had… — Nikos Kazantzakis
The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on… — Hildegard of Bingen
There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a… — Richard Bach
Well I know Gyuri [the familiar diminutive of Georg or György], that human beings are unapproachable, that their souls are as far from each other… — Gyorgy Lukacs
The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's yearning for something… — Bray Wyatt
There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in… — Robin Chase
Warhol and other Pop artists had brought the art religion of art for art's sake to an end. If art was only business, then rock… — Dan Graham
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best… — Ayn Rand
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the… — Guy Davenport
Throughout all the pain of enslavement and despotism, of inquisition, forced conversion, and massacre, the Jewish people has carried in its heart the yearning for… — Berl Katznelson
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit… — H. L. Mencken
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. — Nikolai Berdyaev
You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw where I would… — David Chase
One should not think, 'My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.' God can be realized by means of all paths.… — Ramakrishna
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes… — Jonathan Lethem
What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that… — W. Somerset Maugham
I think every day there is some new actress comes out and inspires me to do something else... like Hilary Swank. After she did Boys… — Elisabeth Moss
Anyone who slaps a "this page is best viewed with Browser X" label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old… — Tim Berners-Lee

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