Explore 'Yearning'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

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

Jeffrey Zaslow

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Lillian Gish

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Miguel de Unamuno

There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

Jan Myrdal

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

Aimee Bender

Unto the man of yearning thought And aspiration, to do nought Is in itself almost an act.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

David Levithan

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

Khurram Murad

Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!

Leigh Hunt

Yearning: It needs to hurt in order to be worthy of the word. Otherwise it is just wanting.

John of the Cross

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

Shekhar Kapur

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

Anaïs Nin

Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Bryant H. McGill

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

Sophy Burnham

Something deep in all of us yearns for God’s beauty, and we can find it no matter where we are.

Sue Monk Kidd

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

Mahatma Gandhi

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

Margaret Atwood

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

Czeslaw Milosz

There is something good in men that really yearn for discipline.

Vince Lombardi

He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.

Pete Wentz

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness.

C. S. Lewis

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

Israel Shenker

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