Best Yearnings Quotes

47 Yearnings quotes by 39 unique authors

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of… — E. O. Wilson
Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Yes, the highest things are beyond words. That is probably why all art aspires to the condition of wordlessness. When literature works on you, it… — Ben Okri
Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to… — Walt Disney
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those… — Hugh Hefner
The Founding Fathers are not just some people that happened to get mad a long time ago and want their freedom. They were special people… — Rush Limbaugh
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human… — Alfred de Vigny
Music at its best...is the grand archeology into and transfiguration of our guttural cry, the great human effort to grasp in time our deepest passions… — Cornel West
When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it,… — Elizabeth Gilbert
And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together… — Hermann Hesse
But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. — Elizabeth Gilbert
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as… — Elizabeth Gilbert
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present… — Gary Shteyngart
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
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
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
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but… — William Ellery Channing
Do not be afraid, for even now I hear the yearnings of your heart, and I am sending you my answer to your prayers. Though… — Tom Krause

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