Quotes about Yearning
People lead lives of quiet desperation.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
— Henry David Thoreau
I know you'll never love me but maybe you'll stay for awhile.
— Henry Rollins
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
— St. Augustine
When he spoke, he illuminated a truth I had always yearned for and yet always run from. I am known as an authority on the holy texts, and yet when he spoke, I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.
— Janette Oke
The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit's work to discourage us.
— Jerry Bridges
Wouldn't it be something if we could have things we love in abudance without their losing that special attraction the want of them held for us.
— Dolly Parton
The seeker is never so popular as the sought. People want what they can't get.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
— Francine Rivers
I am a caged bird, rattling the bars of my cage, with furious flutterings, break my chains! Free my spirit! Let me fly with the wings you have drawn upon my soul with heaven dipped ink
— Steven James
What would it be like to hold a different girl?
— Rainbow Rowell