Yearning Quotes

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Why is love intensified by absence?

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

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

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

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

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

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.

By putting the gift of yearning for God into every human being's heart, God at the same time draws all people made in God's image to God's self and into their own true selves.

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

If the abstract paintings show my reality, then the landscapes and still-lifes show my yearning.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

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

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.

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

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

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

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

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.

The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

I always had this yearning to give and help and make people feel better.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

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.

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

The yearning for strong leadership is more about strength of purpose - clarity of vision - than about merely 'getting tough'.

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

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

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.

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

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

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

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.

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

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

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

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

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

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

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

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

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

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.