Yearn Quotes

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 Exupéry)
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. View quote
Frank Gehry
I love those who yearn for the impossible. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. View quote
Robert Browning
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
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. View quote
Richard Russo
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. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
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. View quote
Roy Moore
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? View quote
Jack Kerouac
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)
To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
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. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
When healers yearn to kill then hope begins to die ... Evil cannot be overcome by evil. View quote
David Gemmell
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. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write. View quote
Amy Poehler
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life. View quote
George H. W. Bush
For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World. View quote
Tariq Ali
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!- But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding. View quote
Conrad Aiken
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. View quote
Russell Baker
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)
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. View quote
Philip K. Dick
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. View quote
Jen Lancaster
I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. View quote
Alice Hoffman
What men yearn for they often destroy. View quote
Alice Hoffman