Quotes about Yearning
A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.
— George Eliot
Mother, you had me, but I never had you.
— John Lennon
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
— CS Lewis
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
— CS Lewis
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
— William Hazlitt
Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.
— Peter Kreeft
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?
— JM Coetzee
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contemporary man.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Somewhere, somebody is looking for someone exactly like you.
— Germany Kent
The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.
— Anonymous
God releases more of His power and presence according to the measure of our hunger for Him.
— Mike Bickle
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then I want to go where they do.
— Will Rogers