Quotes About Yearning For Something

#1. There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. A good story, well told, makes you realize you were yearning for something you had no name for, something you didn't even know you wanted.

F.S. Michaels

#3. I think we're yearning for something beyond the every day. And I will tell you I don't believe in the supernatural, I believe in the supernormal.

Richard Matheson

#4. 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

#5. The acute experience of great beauty readily evokes a nameless yearning for something more than earth can offer. Elegant splendor reawakens our spirit's aching need for the infinite, a hunger for more than matter can provide.

Thomas Dubay

#6. And a while later:
'It is a strange sort of pain.'
Softly.
'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.

Alessandro Baricco

#7. I think there is that very basic yearning for something or someone to be looking after us, for there to be a framework holding the universe together that is benign and intelligent. We're not going to get rid of that; it's just too scary to be that molecule flying around briefly in a vacuum.

Michel Faber

#8. To die of yearning for something you will never experience

Alessandro Baricco

#9. There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a bittersweet yearning for something that was so familiar it hurt. Something he'd lost without even knowing he'd lost it. Something elusive that floated just beyond his grasp.

Alan McCluskey

#10. My dad used to draw these great cartoon figures. His dream was being a cartoonist, but he never achieved it, and it kind of broke my heart. I think part of my interest in art had to do with his yearning for something he could never have.

Kathryn Bigelow

#11. The secret of a good relationship is to accept and enjoy what the other person is willing to offer instead of yearning for something they can't or won't give.

Gillibran Brown

#12. There's a German term- heimweh, homesickness. It's a powerful sensation, like a narcotic. A yearning from home, but for something more- a past self, perhaps. A lost self. When I first saw you on the street, Katya, I felt such a sensation ... I have no idea why

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Greta Garbo

#14. You've got to have a deep yearning for the answer if you ever want to truly learn something really well. If something has no value, it's simply not appreciated.

Maxwell Grantly

#15. Dougan had almost completely forgotten about the food, for his entire body was suffused with the most intense and exquisite sensation he'd ever known. It was something like hunger, and something like fulfillment. It was wonder and awe and yearning and fear encapsulated in a tender bliss.

Kerrigan Byrne

#16. 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

#17. The yearning for study was always there. I loved to learn. I really enjoyed studying
history. Taking college classes was just something I wanted to do. It gave me such a
feeling of satisfaction.

Nola Ochs

#18. My homesickness wasn't truly for home, I realized. It was for something more elusive. A silent, low-grade, unnamed yearning persisted inside me. It was always there, a reaching feeling that grew stronger when I was alone and listened for it. The rain understood what it was.

Caragh M. O'Brien

#19. It created in me a yearning for all that is wide and open and expansive. Something that will never allow me to fit in in my own country, with its narrow towns and narrow roads and narrow kindnesses and narrow reprimands.

Anthony Hopkins

#20. This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

Michael Musto

#21. 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

#22. There is a yearning in you to set things right, little malfetto - you are smarter than the others, because you know there is something wrong with you. It tears at your conscience, doesn't it? You have hatred for yourself, and I admire that.

Marie Lu

#23. There is something desperately lonely about Barack Obama's universe. One gets the overwhelming sense of someone yearning for connection, for something that binds human beings together, for community and commonality, for what he repeatedly calls "the common good". This is hardly news.

Simon Critchley

#24. I suppose I have stopped modeling officially. I've not done any for a good long while now. I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry. I didn't hate it, but I was yearning to do something different. I was on a gradient. It was a gradual thing.

Agyness Deyn

#25. I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

Sylvia Plath

#26. I've never felt the breath of God - you can take that statement literally or metaphorically - more than when I was yearning for a personal, intimate connection to something bigger than me.

Vera Farmiga

#27. I've illustrated many children's books and I feel awfully lucky to be able to do something I love so much, and yes, to be able to pay the rent, but there was a yearning to do something more grown up, and something where I didn't have to cater to anyone; I was just waiting for the material.

Sophie Blackall

#28. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws - always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#29. There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning ... for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.

Steve Goodier

#30. Her heart was aching, and she was lonely. I could understand loneliness. I wished there were more I could do for her, but I wasn't the one she was yearning for, so my help was limited. I was a patch, something to help suppress the sadness. That was okay. At least I was useful.

Anonymous

#31. Homesickness, for example. In his opinion there are various kinds: a desire for shelter, family nostalgia, a fear of separation or a yearning for love.
"The yearning to have something good to love soon: a place, a person, a particular bed.

Nina George

#32. People are yearning to be asked to use the full measure of their potential for something they care about.

Dan Pallotta

#33. There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

Helena Christensen