Yearning Quotes
I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.
The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
Sixty years is cause enough to sing In celebration of a gentle life! To the mother and the wife, Taking pleasure in what love might bring, Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.
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.
The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a feeling of satisfaction.
I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
Do you remember how life yearned out of childhood toward the "great thing?" I see that it is now yearning forth beyond the great thing toward the greater one.
Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?
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 our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.
Emotionally, my ambition is not yet sated. Emotionally, I still feel like a kid at the adult's table, yearning for recognition. I'm not sure where this all comes from but it is how I feel.
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.
If love is a yearning to be like (even to become) the beloved, then hatred, it must be said, can be engendered by the same ambition, when it cannot be fulfilled.
I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.
In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.
Were all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren't we? I suspect God plants these yearnings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all.
Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.
A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment
But he does look stupid.' Yearning. Not stupid. He wants awfully to be on the inside staring out: anybody with their nose pressed against a glass is liable to look stupid.
My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
The old happiness is unreturning. Boy's griefs are not so grievous as youth's yearning. Boys have no sadness sadder than our hope.
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.
The wretched are in this respect fortunate, that they have the strongest yearning after happiness; and to desire is in some sense to enjoy.
Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.
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.
Success is transient. Failure makes us diligent. But yearning to succeed is constant.
It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.
My earnest desire for you has brought me to a point, where the life I've imagined we shall have, seems like a distant memory.
part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.
Love is circumstantial we can love anyone if need be and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.
I won’t let you have it. I won’t give you this moment. I won’t let you fill up this valuable organ...I own it. I won’t do it. I can’t think, I won’t think about it.
We ache with the yearningthat turns half into wholeand offer no excusesfor the beauty of our souls.
If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.
Alone, alone. I am alone – I ache … Yet for the first time, despite all the anguish and the reality problems, I’m here. I feel tranquil, whole, ADULT.
When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.
this heart yearns...for the salt of unsmelt airunswept thunderstorms...unknown adventures.
Maybe she had it wrong all this time and her empty heart could never be filled by his ingenious broken spirit. Maybe this yearning had nothing to do with him, and everything to do with her.
He: I have this crazy yearning in my heart, to make you mine.She: Sure, go ahead and make me your bad habit!