Top 537 Yearning Quotes & Sayings

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Deep within all of us there is a yearning to be brave. And like all of our deepest, truest and best yearning, it comes from how we were made.Courage-the power to do the right thing even when it is scary and hard- resonates deeply with the original shape of our soul.

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a human being is meant to be together with an equally tragic overestimation of what we human beings are capable of in our present everyday state of being. The intensity of the present confusion about the nature and existence of God is a symptom of this yearning within the whole of our modern culture.

Obviously, the world is yearning for more diversity.

A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to fulfillment. For the body without which the wing is a useless frozen ornament. ("A Short Guide To The City")

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 God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.

Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.

Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.

Despite my belief that somehow my work would get me where I wanted to be, there was still some kind of fathomless yearning. Yes, my career aspirations were always goading me. But partially, I think I tried to let those dreams replace or become the other yearning, to have that other form of value.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And sometimes the mountain top is difficult to reach with all our resources, factual and confessional, so we are just there, collectively grasping, feeling the limitations of knowledge, longing together, yearning for a way to reach that highest point. Even this yearning is a way to know.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

Creativity springs from the yearning to be the fullness of who you are.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or sweetness.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

Most women work not from yearning for fulfilment but yearning to pay the mortgage.

History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the Iron Curtain that divided Germany and Europe, and indeed the world, into two blocs.

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 volition and service is with us still.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

People across the world are yearning to be connected to stories of hope.

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

I believe that art is the highest expression of the human spirit. I believe that we yearn to transcend the merely finite and ephemeral; to participate in something mysterious and communal called 'culture' - and that this yearning is as strong in our species as the yearning to reproduce the species.

Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.

The yearning after equality [in economic outcome] is the offspring of envy and covetousness, and there is no possible plan for satisfying that yearning which can do aught else than rob A to give to B; consequently all such plans nourish some of the meanest vices of human nature, waste capital, and overthrow civilization.

Inside every man, there's a yearning to express your wild side.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.