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Yearning Quotes
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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. (Quote by - Brendan Francis)
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. (Quote by - Kevin Spacey)
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. (Quote by - Freda Adler)
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. (Quote by - Shirley Hufstedler)
There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage. (Quote by - Barbara Lazear Ascher)
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt. (Quote by - Hall Caine)
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. (Quote by - Giotto di Bondone)
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. (Quote by - Harriet Beecher Stowe)
In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. (Quote by - Mary Garden)
I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared. (Quote by - Patrick MacGill)
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. (Quote by - George Eliot)
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. (Quote by - Rod Taylor)