Top 100 Yearn Quotes
#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
#2. I yearn for that livin' large, but mama I ain't done yet/Sit back and watch your son rise, kick back and know your son set
J. Cole
#3. When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.
Billy Graham
#4. The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
Billy Graham
#5. Old San Francisco - the one so many nostalgics yearn for - had buildings that related well to each other.
Herb Caen
#6. I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.
Philip K. Dick
#7. Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#8. They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love.
Albert Camus
#9. Ah, a time of his life shall come when he will have to repent, and think wretchedly of the pain he has caused another man; and then may he ache, and wish, and curse, and yearn - as I do now!
Thomas Hardy
#10. In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.
Jim Stovall
#11. It's curious how, when you're in love, you yearn to go about doing acts of kindness to everybody.
P.G. Wodehouse
#12. I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.
Chelsea Martin
#13. You know marriage is like hunger. You yearn for it till you don't get the food. Once the stomach is full, you don't want more on your plate. But then hunger can subside only temporarily. It keeps coming back and that's how exactly a happy married life keeps going on, with all ups and downs.
Shikha Kaul
#14. We are all prisoners of our birthdays," I said, "Though we try to transcend them. We are creatures of our times, and sometimes our souls peek through the cracks and yearn for the sky. And then we are magnificent creatures.
Jo Graham
#15. Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savagery.
Robert Dunbar
#16. When my heart yearn for silence in a crowd full of cheerful people, thats not the lonliness i seek but want to feel the rustling of my abandoned desires pouring upon the broken hearts. All the noise i want to here now is the symphony of love and of healing.
Annie Ali
#17. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.
E. M. Forster
#18. This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read more, the more you understand that you have, in fact, read nothing. There is no way to finish, and perhaps that shouldn't be the goal.
Pamela Paul
#19. There is a theory that if you yearn sincerely enough for a Guru, you will find one. The universe will shift, destiny's molecules will get themselves organized and your path will soon intersect with the path of the master you need.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#20. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#21. A craving for company can yield the surprising discovery that the companionship we yearn for is with ourselves.
Gina Greenlee
#22. Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#23. Our life is a gymnasium of desire ... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."
Saint Augustine
#24. Both what you run from-
and what you yearn for -
are within you.
Anthony De Mello
#25. Lick my finger so I can scan your table of contents- fuck the index- I yearn to ride your story line.
Brandi L. Bates
#27. I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
Steven Holl
#28. I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
Tupac Shakur
#29. 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
#30. I have seen the poor suffer when nobles seek the purity of ideals. I have seen the powerless die when princes believe in the nostalgia of their dreams. I have seen the common people torn from peace and thrown into war when kings yearn to test the clarity of their vision.
Ken Liu
#31. True love makes a person reckless, makes them take risks and make sacrifices. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on. I will fight for this love. Lie for it. Steal for it. It's worthy of that.
Alessandra Torre
#32. We are here to question and yearn. If we deal with our nature in a healthy way, this yearning makes us grow.
Deepak Chopra
#33. The sky looks comfortingly mundane compared to the garish kaleidoscope of the stained glass. It makes Rose yearn to be reliving any one of a thousand ordinary days spent with her ordinary older sister, who has now done this extraordinary thing and died.
Liane Moriarty
#34. I yearn to be a woman of more depth, but I'm not so fond of the path I'd need to follow to get there.
Jen Lancaster
#35. MOMENTS OF great import are often tinged with darkness because perversely we yearn to be let down.
Courtney Maum
#36. My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.
Daniel Radcliffe
#38. I love doing features, but it's a very different ballgame. Sometimes I yearn for short films again, working with a small team, getting my hands on the clay.
Nick Park
#40. You can even yearn for a prison, so long as it contains the people and places you love. One
Joseph Kim
#42. It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else ...
Robert A. Heinlein
#43. In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.
Steve Leveen
#44. We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.
Henry B. Eyring
#45. Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.-RVM
R.v.m.
#47. First you Yearn to Earn. Then you Learn that others will Burn what you Earn. Stop! Turn and Spend before your End.-RVM
R.v.m.
#48. To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.
Henry Steele Commager
#49. Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way.
Russell Baker
#50. In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.
Robert Breault
#51. There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.
Vince Lombardi
#53. God loves us. He's watching us, he wants us to succeed, and we'll know someday that he has not left one thing undone for the eternal welfare of each of us. If we only knew it, there are heavenly hosts pulling for us
friends in heaven that we can't rememer now, who yearn for our victory.
Ezra Taft Benson
#54. Be what you yearn to be, and stop living for false ideals.
E.M. Markoff
#55. And finally, she saw him smile. It chased the shadows from his face and made him a boy again. It was a smile that a woman could grow to yearn for.
Joss Alexander
#56. Love and death are very similar. They're the times in your life when you most want to believe in magic, when you yearn for some symbolic act or retrospective edit that can change the world you find yourself in.
Michael Marshall Smith
#57. My experience with Khonsu had taught me not be greedy about time. It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more.
Rick Riordan
#58. Would he be happy? Joan hoped so. But somehow he seemed a man fated always to yearn after that which he could not have, to choose for himself the rockiest, most difficult path. She would pray for him, as for all the other sad and troubled souls who must travel roads alone.
Donna Woolfolk Cross
#59. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain... Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives, they realize they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.
Borje Vahamaki
#60. Faith is such a wonderful thing. Without it, we would be panicky when we feel like we're standing alone and when the things we need and yearn for seem to be beyond our reach.
Ron Brackin
#61. I listen to the silence
and yearn to be more me,
swimming in the sea of myself,
learning eternally -
finding out where the rocks are
and smoothing them into sand.
Jay Woodman
#62. He doesn't yearn for a better, different life than the one he has - because he knows he's got a home in this one.
Anthony Bourdain
#63. I kept looking for happiness, and then I realized: This is it. It's a moment, and it comes, and it goes, and it'll come back again. I yearn for things, but at the same time I'm just peaceful.
Nicole Kidman
#64. Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.
Jeon In-hwa
#65. It is a strange life up here on the mountain side, but I like it, and never yearn after civilization.
Isabella L. Bird
#66. One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.
Ovid
#67. There are so many of us now that we threaten to devour the world with our touching, starting with the things we adore most. At the same time, we obviously yearn for contact, and I fear what would happen if we were cut off from a distinctive, on-the-ground relationship with the past.
Craig Childs
#68. When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.
Ilka Chase
#69. When you have a comfortable and loving middle-class family, sometimes you yearn for a dance on the edge. This can lead to an overactive imagination, but it is also the reason why kids in Montana do meth.
Amy Poehler
#70. Though everyone may yearn for a tranquil death, the basic instinct to stay alive is a far more powerful force
Sherwin B. Nuland
#71. I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.
Atarah L. Poling
#72. Yearn to grow in the field of love and bliss not in the field of competition and contemplation.
Debasish Mridha
#73. And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.
Lois Lowry
#74. Aspire for excellence.
Hope for fortune.
Yearn for wisdom.
Strive for goodness.
Contend for love.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain of her, and those who leave and yearn for her and blame her with bitterness for driving them away.
Ahdaf Soueif
#76. To believe in God is to yearn for His existence, and furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.
Miguel De Unamuno
#77. Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#78. Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking.
Orson Scott Card
#79. Those who yearn for the end of capitalism should pray for government by men who believe that all positive action is inimical to what they call thoughtfully the fundamental principles of free enterprise.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#80. We Americans are mildly interested, of course, in reading about the discovery of radium by Madame Curie, but what we really yearn to know is the name of the uncommemorated French female who first mixed a sauce bearnaise.
Frank Crowninshield
#81. Personally, I like to yearn a little and long for the next episode. On the other hand, I'm also a glutton. My kids love to dive in and eat whole series at once.
Jenji Kohan
#82. A war raged between my jokey and protective brain and my squishy and tender heart. I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.
Amy Poehler
#83. But even as I yearn for it, I fear it. Because the more I see of this cruel world, the less I believe it ends in some pleasant fiction.
Pierce Brown
#84. People yearn to be in one of the best
a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club
any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.
E. O. Wilson
#85. I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone else I was trying to protect him.
Alice Sebold
#87. Sidi, I ache inside. I yearn to fly away, to feel free in the light, in the dark. I don't ever want to come back.
Raja Alem
#89. We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change.
Atul Gawande
#90. The owner of Papa John's may not be the best pitchman, but he's the worst at acting. Papa John's commercials actually make me yearn for a Men's Wearhouse commercial.
Jim Gaffigan
#91. For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.
Regina Doman
#92. Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.
Billy Graham
#93. We are all sent the dreams we yearn for, she thought; no matter how unhappy or fraught our waking world may be, we are sent dreams in which we can do the things the heart really wants us to do.
Alexander McCall Smith
#95. While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#96. Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.
Leonard Cohen
#97. When the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, however rough, even if it should break them;
Marcel Proust
#98. We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
Anatole France
#99. We crave, we deeply yearn for, release from the limitations of a dogma that declares separation, disunity, and judgment to be the essential condition of life.
Neale Donald Walsch
#100. The Canarsie People said the knowing belongs to the old and wise, but the unfolding is in the keeping of the young. The old prevent the young from straying off the path of wisdom. The young yearn after the path of dreams. Between the two there is truth.
Beverly Swerling
