quotes about Yearning
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To die of yearning for something you will never experience
-- Alessandro Baricco -
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
-- Anais NinSource : Source: www.indiewire.com
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.
-- Charles Lamb -
I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
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There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
-- Cole Porter -
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
-- David QuammenSource : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.207, Simon and Schuster
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And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee
-- Doreen Valiente -
I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
-- Greta Garbo -
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Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.
-- Jack VanceSource : "The Complete Lyonesse" by Jack Vance, Gollancz (p. 449), 2000.
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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.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
-- Julia Cameron -
Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
-- Khurram Murad -
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I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me
-- Laura Hillenbrand -
Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
-- Portia de Rossi -
Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?
-- Richard Yates -
We are the yearning creatures of this planet.
-- Robert Olen ButlerSource : Robert Olen Butler, Janet Burroway (2006). “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction”, p.40, Grove Press
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If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.
-- Russell BrandSource : "Compilation Of Russell Brand Interviews Proves The Only Thing That Matters Is Love " by Sarah Barness, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2013.
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I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
-- Sarah Dessen -
Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.
-- Shekhar Kapur -
prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.
-- Sophy Burnham -
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I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.
-- Tom Hooper -
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
-- Wayne Gerard Trotman -
I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.
-- Isha Judd -
Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.
-- John Pierrakos -
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We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.
-- Hafez Ibrahim -
Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.
-- Jeffrey Zaslow