Life Yearning Quotes

#1. Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#2. Suddenly yearning had a flavor. It tasted like a king, a beautiful, frightening, infuriating man who flew into my life and began to free my words.

Amy Harmon

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

Kent Nerburn

#4. 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

#5. There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

#6. Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The flowers ... remember.
I suddenly understood. This was Ash's memory of Ariella, perfect, happy and full of life, a yearning so great it was given form, if only for a moment.

Julie Kagawa

#9. A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning, and the story she tells is as complicated as life itself. This is a richly satisfying novel.

Margot Livesey

#10. Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

Debbie Ford

#11. Within this raindrop there must be a heart- a heart that weeps the pain of longing. I have her in my palm where the silvery rays of the morn reflect the beauty of the whole cosmos and I kiss her with all my yearning!

Preeth Nambiar

#12. Then real life intervenes, your psychic tuning is knocked off of the wavelength, and yearning becomes the state of your life until the next time.

Penny Billington

#13. Listening to all words
the silent words of nature, the words of friends and enemies, and the words of scripture
can become an exercise in human yearning and divine response, flowing in and out of one's life like a river current.

Kathleen Norris

#14. The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#15. The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

Peter Hoeg

#16. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Iris Murdoch

#17. But she was half in love with chaos... With all her yearning for the ordinary life, she was born to admire outsiders. You could see she felt enlarged by drama and trouble, by the electric pulse of things going wrong, and her vision of the easy life remained in most ways a recurring dream.

Andrew O'Hagan

#18. Steinbeck's commitment to discipline isn't mere moral vanity or fetishism of productivity - his is an earnest yearning to create the greatest work of his life,

Anonymous

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

Shekhar Kapur

#20. 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

#21. There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be earning bread for himself and others; and he should be yearning, too: yearning to know the unknowable.

Christopher Morley

#22. Everyone has one - an inventory of lost things waiting to be found. Yearning to be acknowledged for the worth they once held in your life.

Lang Leav

#23. Men and women cannot rest content with a superficial and unquestioning exchange of skeptical opinions and experiences of life - all of us are in search of truth and we share this profound yearning today more than ever ...

Pope Benedict XVI

#24. An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream to people's hearts is a simpler task if the endeavor you are leading them into is attached to a bigger story.

Mac Anderson

#25. The soul is imbued with a yearning that is carried, like a torch, from incarnation to incarnation. It burns with a curiosity about life and it's true identity. Souls live, strive, and evolve, driven to seeking the truth about the world and themselves.

Stefan Emunds

#26. A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Lillian Gish

#27. It felt important to be able to pick up and go whenever this endless stirring and inevitable craving for a change of scenery would bubble over because I didn't want to die someday yearning for something else when it was only "something else" worth living.

Jackie Haze

#28. If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

Jerry Bridges

#29. Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

William J. Clinton

#30. In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

Alex Haley

#31. It made me wonder if there is much difference in our hearts between love and grief. they both have a yearning that seems unable to be satisfied.

Suzanne Kelman

#32. Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#33. An unsuspected yearning uncovered, discovered. For a simpler time and a simpler life. Before Internet, and climate change, and terrorism. When neighbors worked together, and separation was not a topic or an issue or wise.

Louise Penny

#34. It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.

Adyashanti

#35. She was full of yearning. To leave, to be someone else, somewhere else, to start moving and never stop. And yet the more the innermost part of her screamed to move, the more she recognised that she was frozen to one place, one life.

Richard Flanagan

#36. Everyone hurries his life on and suffers from a yearning for the future and a weariness of the present. But he who bestows all of his time on his own needs, who plans out every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the morrow.

Seneca.

#37. By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Virginia Postrel

#38. I'm burning in despair
Love which you distanced from me
Return once again
I'll forgive you again
Return, Page 19

Delicious David

#39. 'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#40. Ramona wasn't at home anywhere. She felt like a spy in life and the ending of every great book and each orgasm, and the sight of every homeless shopping bag lady infected her with a titanic yearning for the world to make an unscheduled stop.

Ann Druyan

#41. Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#42. Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man's life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#43. Desire is the engine of life, the yearning that goads us forward with stops along the way, but it has no destination, no final stop, except death.

Siri Hustvedt

#44. It feels like home, far from home, yet homely. I have always been a fan of Delhi's practical life not that i have lived in an aspiration or yearning to make a living here, but delhi has always been on my soapbox.

Parul Wadhwa

#45. Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. ... The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it.

Andrew Root

#46. All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings - greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance.

Erich Maria Remarque

#47. I'm scared I'm going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

Melina Marchetta

#48. 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.

Nick Gordon

#49. Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

Jeanette Winterson

#50. And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together was the world. All of it together was the flow of events, was the music of life.

Hermann Hesse

#51. 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.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev

#52. Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#53. She was the wish of his life. He didn't know how else to say it. He didn't even know that he could really explain, just that every time he saw her he felt his bones might break under the weight of his wanting. His longing for her.

C.J. Carlyon

#54. I have learned that my quenchless longing for life is, after all, unconsciously, a secret, unutterable yearning after God; for how can you conceive of life apart from Him?

Frank W. Boreham

#55. The woods are hush'd, their music is no more; The leaf is dead, the yearning past away; New leaf, new life
the days of frost are o'er; New life, new love, to suit the newer day: New loves are sweet as those that went before: Free love
free field
we love but while we may.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#56. You must not fear that clutching at your dreams will shatter them so they run through your fingers like sand. That way lies a life spent in yearning. But yearning is only a season of dreaming, for dreams, if nurtured, become strong.

Alexia Casale

#57. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.

Sanober Khan

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

Alice Hoffman

#59. - But, if life is just that, just being reasonable, then there is nothing in it - nothing worthwhile. So, the yearning that we have to keep dead things living - or to make unreasonable things reasonable. That is why a person should live.

Jesse Ball

#60. Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos.

Juhani Peltonen

#61. Storytelling explores the problem with people. Stories without conflict are bad stories that no one repeats. Conflict describes the reality of human life and interaction with others. The resolution of the conflict in which everyone lives happily ever after reflects the human yearning for hope.

Harry Lee Poe

#62. How agonizing it was,this life of silence and yearning. Yet how very worth it when his eyes found hers.

Marissa Meyer

#63. I always had that yearning, that hunger, to one day be independent and be my own person and build my own world. The most fulfilling thing is to live a life where you have freedom.

Michelle Phan

#64. O tender yearning, sweet hoping!
The golden time of first love!
The eye sees the open heaven,
The heart is intoxicated with bliss;
O that the beautiful time of young love
Could remain green forever.

Friedrich Schiller

#65. All too often a family's spending is governed more by their yearning than by their earning. They somehow believe that their life will be better if they surround themselves with an abundance of things. All too often all they are left with is avoidable anxiety and distress

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#66. Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind.

Margaret Cousins

#67. Life is for intense love; yearning for love is the basis of an intense life.

Debasish Mridha

#68. What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.

Dermot Davis

#69. Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

Khurram Murad

#70. Best not to tiptoe around what you're yearning for, eyeing it, longing for it ... or you'll miss your life ahead, it read.

Beverly Lewis

#71. At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.

Shusaku Endo

#72. We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

Ian Somerhalder

#73. Beauty, then, is a fragment of the divine, and the sight of it saddens us by evoking our sense of loss and our yearning for the life denied us.

Alain De Botton

#74. 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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#75. Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.

Ann Brashares

#76. I miss you like the mismatching sock I can't find. You're out there somewhere.

Karen Quan

#77. 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

#78. Living in New York City, I am reminded by the Statue of Liberty that the United States of America has always welcomed those yearning to breathe free and seek a better life.

Charles B. Rangel

#79. Welcome to apartment life," Cash breathed.
"I sure know how to make a great first impression," I muttered, following Cash as he laughed. I didn't see what was so funny. I'd been yearning for that kiss for months.
"No welcome cookies for you then.

Shaye Evans

#80. Life is arranged against us, Sarah. And it's brutally worse for Handful and her mother and sister. We're 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.

Sue Monk Kidd

#81. Life is yearning for the adventure of your footsteps.

Bryant McGill