Top 1200 Yearning For Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.

The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

The world awakens on the run And will soon be earning With hopes of better days to come It's a morning yearning.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

People are yearning for a politics that tells it straight: that being in government is difficult, that there are tough decisions that we have to make sometimes.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

In this new era of social media the rules of the road have changed significantly, yet the basic yearning for true connectivity and love have not.

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?

The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.

I look for that earnest yearning in talent, you may not be the best at what you do, but if you have the passion you can at some point become your own inspiration.

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings.

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning

Must be yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please.

There is no doubt that the people of Afghanistan have suffered for a long time. Generations have been lost to terrorism. We empathise with their yearning for peace.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

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.

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

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 friendships can give.

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

People are always yearning for a bigger story to be part of, it's not enough to live our own private lives.

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 of the present.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.

Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

In the eternal scheme of things - not always in mortality - righteous yearning and longing will be fulfilled.

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

Directing is to fill anyone with a yearning to get back at ten o'clock next morning.

How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

The world is yearning for strong leadership and moral clarity; someone who knows the difference between good and bad.

The country is yearning for a change. I'd rather take my chances on somebody new, particularly with regard to the Supreme Court.

The appetite for adventure and risk is not exclusive to young Christians. In face, it seems to be a fundamental yearning, knitted into the fabric of the human soul.

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.