Yearning famous quotes

To die of yearning for something you will never experience
-- Alessandro Baricco

#Yearning

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

#Soul #Suffering #Yearning

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

#Strong #Faces #Yearning

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

#Way #Yearning #Wanted

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

#Burning #Hungry #Yearning

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
-- David Quammen

#Underwater #Yearning #Creatures

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

#Mystery #Thee #Yearning

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.
-- Greta Garbo

#Sea #Yearning

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

#Admiration #Function #Yearning

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

#Morning #Enthusiasm #Yearning

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.
-- Julia Cameron

#Forever #More Time #Yearning

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

#Harvest #Repentance #Yearning

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

#Aspiration #Listening To Music #Yearning

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.
-- Portia de Rossi

#Want #Restriction #Yearning

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

#Yearning #Whole Life

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.
-- Robert Olen Butler

#Planets #Yearning #Creatures

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 Brand

#People #Might #Yearning

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
-- Sarah Dessen

#Yearning #Hated

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.
-- Shekhar Kapur

#Life #Lessons #Yearning

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

#Prayer #Heart #Yearning

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

#Juggernaut #Someday #Yearning

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.
-- Wayne Gerard Trotman

#Maturity #Youth #Yearning

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

#Determined #Moments #Yearning

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.
-- John Pierrakos

#Marriage #Alive #Yearning

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

#Body #Yearning #Constant

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

#People #Culture #Yearning