Yearning Quotes - Page 2

You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

I have a yearning someday to do one of these huge juggernauts.

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.

Creativity is a yearning for immortality

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

I look at you, and I see in you the yearning to get back to God. That yearning is love.

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

We are the total of our longings.

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present.

Our yearning for truth actually comes from truth.