Yearning Quotes

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)
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. View quote
John Steinbeck
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. View quote
Giotto di Bondone
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. View quote
Umberto Eco
Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains blends yearning and repulsion and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. View quote
George Eliot
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. View quote
Emma Lazarus
Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. View quote
Tim Berners-Lee
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. View quote
Christopher Morley
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. View quote
Rod Taylor
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience. (John Updike)
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. View quote
George Eliot
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? View quote
Haruki Murakami
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power. View quote
Alfred Adler
This gray spirit yearning in desire; To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
One should not think, "My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." God can be realized by means of all paths. It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite the opinions. View quote
Ramakrishna
If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path. View quote
Ramakrishna
Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world. View quote
Emil Cioran
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too. View quote
Willard van Orman Quine
There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. (Cole Porter)
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. View quote
Friedrich Schiller
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! View quote
Emma Lazarus
I don't really know what "intellectual" means, but if it means you've got a desire to learn, you've got a desire to look for things that haven't been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that "intellectual" is quite an exclusive word. I think it's just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place. View quote
Pete Doherty
Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love. View quote
Jack Vance