Yearning Quotes

• Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

  John of the Cross

  Hurt, Order, Needs

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• My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

  Stephanie Laurens

  Heart, Romance, Needs

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Choices

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• There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Anxiety, Soul, Feelings

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• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  Louise Erdrich

  Love, Life, Strength

  "Louise Erdrich and 'The Painted Drum'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. October 02, 2005.

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• The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hope, Hurt, Regret

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

  Sylvia Plath

  Giving, Soul, Needs

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.21, Anchor

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• Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

  John Steinbeck

  Doe, Fields, Hunger

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.59, Penguin

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• The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.

  Gail Godwin

  Long, Forward Motion, Found

  Gail Godwin (1985). “The finishing school”, Viking Pr

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• Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, Heart, Contentment

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• The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Greek, Suffering

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Progress, Path, Impossible

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• How we need another soul to cling to.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Soul, Needs

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.46, Anchor

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• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

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• I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

  Tupac Shakur

  Romantic, Greatness, Rapper

  Song: The Eternal Lament

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• I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

  Patrick MacGill

  Military, War, Army

  Patrick MacGill (2008). “The Amateur Army”, Forbes Press

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• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  Hall Caine

  Men, Expression, Circles

  Hall Caine (2016). “The Scapegoat”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.

  Tony Snow

  Confusion, Joy, Lust

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• 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.

  Kevin Spacey

  Film, Capacity, Wanted

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Birth, Ends

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• 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.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  Emma Lazarus

  Tired, Civilization, Urbanization

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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