Yearning Quotes

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

To die of yearning for something you will never experience

We are like lutes once held by God. Being away from his warm body fully explains this constant yearning.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

What unites us as human beings is an urge for happiness which at heart is a yearning for union.

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.

prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

Lessons of Life: When you stop yearning, When you stop aspiring. You stop living.

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

Do not seek after what you yearn for, seek the source of the yearning itself.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

There is most certainly a purpose you are yearning to fulfill. Find it, know it, follow it, and you can change the world.

I longed to read everything I possibly could, and the things I read in turn produced new yearnings.

One does not yearn for that which is easily acquired.