Quotes of Yearning - somelinesforyou

“ Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ”

- Epicurus

“ I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them. ”

- Eleonora Duse

“ Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. ”

- Bible

“ The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: there is a forward motion to yearning. ”

- Gail Godwin

“ 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. ”

- George Eliot

“ 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. ”

- Barbara Lazear Ascher

“ While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. ”

- George Eliot

“ I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me. ”

- Giuseppe Garibaldi

“ The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. ”

- Laurence Sterne

“ 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. ”

- Shirley Hufstedler

“ Some men flee from temptation, but others just crawl away from it hoping it will overtake them. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Ignorance is like the itch — the less you have of it the better off you are. ”

- Harry Mendelson

“ There comes... a longing never to travel again except on foot. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had? ”

- Unknown

“ Still desiring, we live without hope. ”

- Dante Alighieri

“ Hungry bellies have no cars. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others. ”

- J. Saunders Redding

“ Oliver Twist has asked for more! ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. ”

- Seneca

“ There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ”

- Corita Kent

“ What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ Classical music is the kind that we keep hoping will turn into a tune. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach? ”

- Greta Garbo

“ Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own. ”

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow. ”

- Richard Burton

“ The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves. ”

- Eric Hoffer
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