Top 100 Quotes About Yearns

#1. Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn

John Berryman

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#2. Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in the universe is as inevitable as the gravitational pull between the Earth and the Sun.

Brian Swimme

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#3. There is something in the American character, traditionally, that yearns to see the status quo kicked in the ass.

Alec Cizak

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#4. Duty. Honor. He yearns to write his name large across the book of history, to get away from his wife, or both. Perhaps he just wants to be warm for once in his life.

George R R Martin

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#5. I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.

Jeff Kinney

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#6. The world yearns. This is its sure gravity: the attraction of bodies. Earth for molten star. Moon for earth. A hand for the orb of a breast. This is its movement too: the motion of desire, of a longing toward.

Alison MacLeod

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#7. The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Ashim Shanker

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#8. What she wants most - what she truly yearns for - is what any of us want: to be seen.

Christina Baker Kline

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#9. The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander

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#10. Faces come and faces go in circular rotation.But something yearns within to grow beyond infatuation.

Don McLean

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#11. Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

Johan Huizinga

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#12. Within everyone there is a place, hidden deep inside, which yearns for 'that' kiss. You know the one I mean, the one that sends your senses reeling, leaving you breathless and when you break away, and finally regain your senses, you know you will never see the world in the same light...

Virginia Alison

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#13. Envy yearns to find flaws.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

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#14. A heart that yearns for romantic love cannot be quenched by any other passion, position or property.

Franklyn James

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

Sanober Khan

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#16. Everyone yearns for heaven, and nothing binds you to the hope of eternal life like that kind of defeat on earth.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

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#17. The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

Sri Aurobindo

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#18. The desire for knowledge is so great and it works in such a way that the human heart, despite its experience of insurmountable limitation, yearns for the infinite riches which lie beyond, knowing that there is to be found the satisfying answer to every question as yet unanswered.

Pope John Paul II

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#19. The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

Stephen King

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#20. In the face of death, he had nothing to lose by speaking of the intimacies of love. Yet, in the face of life, he could speak only of its banalities.

Gerard Brooker

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#21. Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there
passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of.

Alexander McCall Smith

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#22. I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.

Richard Paul Evans

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#23. I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.

Dean Koontz

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#24. In other words, man's imagination, when it is not corrupt, yearns for the holy - to behold its beauty from a distance, to be possessed by it. All the greatest art of the past, pagan and Christian, testifies to this desire. It

Anthony Esolen

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#25. By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

William Shakespeare

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#26. The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a decent life in this world, it is because I know to say no to the thing inside me that yearns, even now, to burn it all down.

Mary Stewart Atwell

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#27. Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Eric Hoffer

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#28. What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he wanders he yearns to have a home. And yet how bestial is content - all the great things in life are done by discontented people.

Christopher Morley

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#29. Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.

Conrad Aiken

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#30. When people look at clouds they do not see their real shape, which is no shape at all, or every shape, because they are constantly changing. They see whatever it is that their heart yearns for.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

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#31. In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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#32. Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.

John Battelle

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#33. There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Karl Kraus

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#34. What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Emile Chartier

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#35. There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

H.L. Mencken

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#36. There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

E'yen A. Gardner

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#37. He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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#38. love denied a childish heart that yearns for love. Little

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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#39. Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#40. Atheism tells him what he isn't, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Eric Metaxas

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#41. I wonder if every girl yearns for her father's love,
almost like waiting to catch the moon hiding in the trees - beautiful, yet so eternally elusive.
-MUKTA

Amita Trasi

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#42. As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me.

Jason Robert Brown

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#43. In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness.

Gillian Flynn

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#44. To give space when what one most yearns for is closeness, that is both the great test and great tragedy of love.

Simone De Beauvoir

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#45. Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

Karen Barad

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#46. The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

Jostein Gaarder

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#47. It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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#48. 'The Purpose-Driven Life' is not just a mega-bestselling work of Christian faith; it is the thing that every voter, secular or not, yearns for.

Eric Liu

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#49. It could go on for years and years,
And has, for centuries,
For being human holds a special grief
Of privacy within the universe
That yearns and waits to be retouched
By someone who can take away
The memory of death.

Herbert Mason

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#50. God passionately desires and ardently yearns for our salvation ... Nothing is greater than this: that the blood of God was poured out for us.

Pope John Paul II

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#51. Man is an accident who yearns for necessity

Nigel Hems

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#52. As the sea, when it lies calm and deeply transparent, yearns for heaven, so may the pure heart, when it is calm and deeply transparent, yearn for the Good.

Soren Kierkegaard

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#53. Every bone in my body yearns to keep this boy safe, always.

Marie Lu

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#54. The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.

Horace

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#55. One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up.

H.L. Mencken

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#56. Money goes where money is, money yearns where money is.

Christina Stead

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#57. Every time a strong wind blows, every sand and dust yearns for being a solid rock and every solid rock longs for flying with the wind!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#58. Despite the obstacle, when a strong passion within yearns for life, begs to thrive, we must find a way to release it. To set free that which creates, that which inspires, for passion is the driving force behind all that is great.

Rico Lamoureux

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#59. I have seen faith rise 'mountain high' when the truth of God's present love and compassion begins to dawn upon the minds and hearts of the people. It is not what God can do, but what we know He yearns to do, that inspires faith.

F. F. Bosworth

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#60. A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment

Toni Morrison

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#61. Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past.

Andrew Solomon

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#62. I just want to escape my own body and project sunlight on to the walls for her to see, so she warms up and yearns for my arms.

Mathias Malzieu

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#63. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

Anne D. LeClaire

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#64. Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it.

Aristotle.

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#65. What is it one yearns for? It is to be able to do a thing for the first time again. And that is impossible.

Elizabeth Bibesco

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#66. The Light yearns for the peaceful balance of the Darkness as much as Darkness seeks the Glory of the Light.

Solange Nicole

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#67. I don't paint what people expect,
I paint what my heart yearns to express.

Nikki Rowe

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#68. Before anything else, above all else, beyond all else God love us. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition. God is in love with us ... God yearns for us.

Roberta Bondi

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#69. Yearns creep upon the mandarin glow dipping into the horizon, bound to incarnate all the sleepy heads awakening around the globe.

C.C. Wyatt

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#70. It is a terrible thing when it is the substitute that is sent to find a new life, a sign that a person yearns for change but cannot imagine creating it herself....
If scapegoats feel pain, it is only the delegated pain of their originals.

Shelley Jackson

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#71. I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

Maya Angelou

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#72. The new female is not limited in any way. She yearns to give the gifts she was born to give, and she does what is necessary to give them. Where her heart leads, she goes. No one defines her role for her. She is on a spiritual journey. Authentic Power is her destination.

Gary Zukav

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#73. Something deep in all of us yearns for God's beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

Sue Monk Kidd

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#74. Soul yearns to return home to God. Home to God means the area of supreme divine love that has no conditions attached to it: unconditional love.

Harold Klemp

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#75. But by nature, the human heart yearns most for what it cannot have.

Dean Koontz

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#76. Youth always yearns for that terrifying, suspect, indifferent homeland known as the world.

Sandor Marai

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#77. Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#78. Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Derek Walcott

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#79. There's the good girl leading a charmed life who secretly covets to be the rare and elusive femme fatale and the femme fatale who yearns to be good and then there is their nemesis - men who dream and desire both.

Donna Lynn Hope

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#80. It was the gaze of a person who yearns for something and refuses to believe it will never be hers, because hope is the only thing she has left.

Felix J. Palma

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#81. Every soul yearns for freedom.

Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

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#82. If you want to have the kind of relationship that your heart yearns for, you have to create it. You can't depend on somebody else creating it for you.

Gary Zukav

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#83. Now is the time to give me roses, not to keep them for my grave to come. Give them to me while my heart beats, give them today while my heart yearns for jubilee. Now is the time.

Mzwakhe Mbuli

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#84. A man after God's own heart is ...
a man who yearns to please God,
a man who desires to grow spiritually,
a man who had a heart that obeys.

Jim George

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#85. The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home.

C.S. Lewis

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#86. My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.

Emraan Hashmi

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#87. Inside each person is a divine being that yearns to come into full expression

Deepak Chopra

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#88. Sick of this State
Of that Stateless States
That moves at this rate
That Knocks at the Gate
And Yearns for the remains
Of the brave new fate.

Khalid Chaouch

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#89. Man naturally yearns for novelty.

Pliny The Elder

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#90. The timid man yearns for full value and asks for a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

Mark Twain

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#91. Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue, oh how my heart yearns for you.

Buddy Holly

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#92. We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You've tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I've seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God,

Francine Rivers

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#93. A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

James A. Belasco

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#94. That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.

Freda Adler

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#95. Just as the sailor yearns for port, the writer longs for the last line.

Alix Christie

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#96. Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent.

William A. Clark

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#97. You desire to tame everything, but if you just stand still and feel for a moment you would know how everything yearns to be wild.

Jim Dodge

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#98. I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry ... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it.

Stephen Fry

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#99. Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.

Chris Boucher

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#100. Beauty is something everybody longs for, needs, and tries to obtain in some way - whether through nature, or a man or a woman, or music, or whatever. The soul yearns for it. Psychology seems to have forgotten that.

James Hillman

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