Top 100 Yearn Quotes
#1. Philosophers have done wisely when they have told us to cultivate our reason rather than our feelings, for reason reconciles us to the daily things of existence; our feelings teach us to yearn after the far, the difficult, the unseen.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#2. I'm at peace, at last. I fear nothing. I yearn for nothing. I suppose you could call that happiness
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#3. O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
Albert Einstein
#4. I would always have been the geek who's your friend. I will never be the dark guy with a sensitive side, as much as I yearn to be.
Jon Cryer
#5. Darkness scares us. We yearn for the comfort of light as it provides shape and form, allowing us to recognize and define what's before us. But what is it we're afraid of really? Not the darkness itself, but the truth we know hides within.
Emily Thorne
#6. We should remain students for lifetime. You should be ready and yearn to learn from every moment of life. The basic elements of life need to be associated with learning. The learning process should be a part of your DNA.
Narendra Modi
#7. Refusing to feel desire is the only thing more painful than failing to get what you want, and that learning not to yearn, far from preventing disappointment, ultimately guarantees it.
Martha N. Beck
#8. There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.
Soledad O'Brien
#9. When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin
#10. I think every great show has that kind of romance that people just kind of yearn for.
Matthew Morrison
#11. Tell me what you yearn for and I shall tell you who you are. We are what we reach for, the idealized image that drives our wandering.
James Hillman
#12. What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the intelligence knows is impossible to have: a lost love, a shelter from life's blows, the return of a time past, even a connection to the dead.
Alice McDermott
#13. They hope they'll learn to be happier together. They also yearn, sometimes, for the point at which misery becomes so profound as to leave them no alternative.
Michael Cunningham
#14. To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.
Aziz Ansari
#15. Believing in God, invisible yet supreme, I also believed it possible so to yearn for him with all my soul that he would take compassion and give me answer.
Lew Wallace
#16. When people ask me how I develop recipes, I have to respond: "travelling, eating, watching, experimenting, and constantly asking myself: 'Do I want to eat this dish again?'" Will I yearn for it some evening when I'm hungry? Will I remember it in six months' time? In a year? Five years from now?
Paula Wolfert
#17. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#19. People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.
Julie Burchill
#20. But no matter how hard I try, I still yearn for
hugs/kisses/smiles/a hand to hold.
Sarah Tregay
#21. Oh, aging is ruddy unbearable! The I's we were yearn to breathe the world's air again, but can they ever break out from these calcified cocoons?
David Mitchell
#22. Electricity sparked between them at the touch, and she savored the way he made her yearn. How the crush of their lips together inspired revelations.
Katherine McIntyre
#23. Be brave enough to never yearn For that you cannot hold close In your heart forever. Tread lightly, cherish compassion And live in the moment without fear.
Scott Hastie
#24. Love seeks nothing other than its own expression. Love never changes. It doesn't need explanation. It is the space between two people that makes them yearn for someone who becomes God.
Vatsal Surti
#25. The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.
Will Ferguson
#26. Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#27. All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.
Deepak Chopra
#29. I spend a fair chunk of time in Los Angeles, and after about ten days of warmth and unbroken clear skies, you start to yearn for a bit of good old British gloom and rain!
Sean Bean
#30. She made him yearn for a future his kind could never have, and a connection he sure as hell didn't deserve.
Katherine McIntyre
#31. I choose life. I choose to eat, for I yearn for something more.
Marc David
#32. People yearn for change, they relish being part of a movement, and they talk about things that are remarkable, not boring.
Seth Godin
#33. Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
Lisa Kleypas
#34. I empathize with those who yearn for a simpler world, for some bygone golden age of domestic and international tranquility. But for the mass of humanity it is an age that never was.
Shirley Hufstedler
#35. I yearn to see other chief executives throughout the nation follow suit, so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice.
Winthrop Rockefeller
#37. I don't wish to yearn for yesterday. I want to learn FROM yesterday
Timothy Kendrick
#38. The peace and safety for which you yearn is not a
matter of food, clothing, and shelter. It is a matter of
love. Love and be loved, and all else will be added
unto you. The world will perform its magic when you step into
yours. That is the promise of God, and it will be kept.
Neale Donald Walsch
#39. What a puzzle you are to me, Jander Sunstar! You feed upon lifeblood, yet mourn the life you take. You are a being of shadow and night, yet you yearn to be surrounded by beauty. You are dead, but you cannot bear decay. What exactly are you? You can hardly be a vampire!
Christie Golden
#40. I yearn to tell you finally everything that is written only on paper, so dead, so empty and so boring.
Sarah Wildman
#41. My yearn for home is broadened
Patriotism expanded
By callings from beyond
So I pack my things
Nothing precious
All things sacred
Alanis Morissette
#42. 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
#43. I threw my arms around him. "I yearn only for you."
Quinton gave a self-conscious shrug and an embarrassed laugh. "I feel the same way about you and I'm sorry I'm . . . being an ass. Also, I suspect you just wanted to use 'yearn' in a sentence.
Kat Richardson
#44. All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.
Czeslaw Milosz
#45. I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.
Sebastian Horsley
#46. 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
#47. Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force ... But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become ...
David Deida
#48. Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity.
M. Scott Peck
#49. Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed
Sunday Adelaja
#50. Butterflies in the stomach, a smile that won't go away, and it's like an addiction that makes a person yearn for more. It's not something one thinks about, it's something that's felt, involuntarily.
Shelena Shorts
#51. Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
Ovid
#52. After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
Richard Russo
#53. When your knowlege increases over time, yearn to learn to dance in your mind.
Debasish Mridha
#54. My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it.
Johnny Isakson
#55. We are partners in our own deception. The lies we tell ourselves. The life we have settled for, when we yearn for the life we wish for. We become our own worst enemy as we yearn for the things we don't have and discredit the gifts we have.
Tony Curl
#56. It's nobody's fault that our hearts work in their little strange ways. It's nobody's fault that we fall for one another. It's nobody's fault that we can't have the love we yearn. It's nobody's fault that we never learn. So, save your apology, my dear. Save it for later days. Save it for better days.
Noor Iskandar
#57. I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.
Joe Scarborough
#58. I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle ... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.
Mike Schmidt
#59. After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#60. Let us now yearn for the possibility of building a happiness in every heart. Let us now build inward a new world of hope, a world of limitless possibilities for the children of tomorrow, where each soul can reach the heights of their potential to love and to be loved.
Bryant McGill
#61. It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe ...
Joseph O'Neill
#62. Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you may live the life that you yearn.
Rico Dasheem
#63. Running is a brutal and emotional sport. It's also a simple, primal sport. As humans, on a most basic level, we get hungry, we sleep, we yearn for love, we run.
Adharanand Finn
#64. Be careful what you yearn for, because that which you desire most will either complete you or destroy you, and you don't get to choose.
William Lashner
#65. Deep within each of us is a longing for home. We yearn for a place of comfort where we can be ourselves, where we can realize our dreams.
Denise Linn
#66. I don't think all people yearn for freedom, actually. I think they yearn for stability.
Tucker Carlson
#67. This pain in your heart was created to make you yearn less for this life. And to yearn more for jennah. Allahu akbar
Yasmin Mogahed
#68. No home anymore. Nowhere to return. My house is a ruin, a cemetery. You may yearn for the grave, but just try living there.
Anna Kamienska
#69. I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.
Emily Bronte
#70. Is it possible to want something so badly that you yearn for it and let it dominate your every thought, but at the same time it terrifies you and makes you tremble with fear at the very idea of it?
Cindy Vine
#71. We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach.
Tara Brach
#72. 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.
#73. Will I live yearning for a world that I need not yearn for because the message of Christmas is entirely undaunted in its ability to handily penetrate and completely subjugate the very world that I doubt its ability to survive in?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#74. The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
Roy Moore
#75. Yearn for the opposite, to buck the trend, to be different.
Fennel Hudson
#76. Julia stood for his youth, and the high hopes he had cherished; and although he might no longer yearn to possess her she would remain nostalgically dear to him while life endured.
Georgette Heyer
#77. Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska
#78. A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#79. There was a spark inside that holiest of holy places that made people want to possess it, and what men yearn for they often destroy.
Alice Hoffman
#80. Those who yearn for true spiritual light and knowledge can only find it through the power of the Holy Ghost. The Spirit enlightens and gives understanding of the eternal purpose of life. By the Spirit, Church members know the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is true.
M. Russell Ballard
#81. Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don't, but half the time that's a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep down, we'd love to love and be loved by all.
Alexandra Katehakis
#82. One can yearn for another after knowing flesh unity, but it is impossible to yearn for another after soul unity.
Fulton J. Sheen
#83. Real vision dies only when life dies. Once we live, we hope, we yearn for and we aspire to have something!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#84. Though I yearn to help, I will not violate your freedom. I stand silently in the background of your mind, waiting for you to remember that I am with you.
Sarah Young
#85. Better to wait and yearn, and still to wait, And die at last with unappeased desire, Than live to be the jest of such a fate, For that is my conception of hell-fire.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#86. I yearn for empty thoughts and silence in my head. For someone to sit down beside me, to hold my hand and take away the cold sting of loneliness that creeps under my skin like an English winter.
Malia Zaidi
#87. Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.
Neal A. Maxwell
#88. Be more than a person she would settle for ... be a person she would yearn for.
Steve Maraboli
#89. Which one of us, anywhere in the world, doesn't yearn to be believed when the audience is watching?
Gene Wilder
#90. One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.
Alain De Botton
#91. Did normal people secretly yearn to be deviant? I didn't know, but I could no longer pretend.
Skye Warren
#92. You are a labyrinth of chaos where I yearn to wander forever.
Remesh R.
#93. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Allan Bloom
#94. True love tests the boundaries of our person, makes us yearn to be better and fight for the ground we stand on.
Alessandra Torre
#95. The men with whom we live resemble a field of ruins of the most precious sculptural designs where everything shouts at us: come, help, perfect ... we yearn immeasurably to become whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#96. Wherever you go, in every country, on every continent, people yearn and hunger for one thing: to love and be loved.
Michael Jackson
#97. The flames surround me, and I feel myself slipping further from life, thinning to only the faintest shiver in the air. I yearn for the darkness and silence of the underworld, where I can rest.
Madeline Miller
#98. Summer's heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in it's turn, and everything living now seemed to yearn for sun with the anguish of the unloved. The world of sensible seasons had come undone.
Barbara Kingsolver
#99. I yearn for things, but at the same time I am just peaceful.
Nicole Kidman
#100. The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
Jack Kerouac
