Hankering Quotes

• Now, here is the point about the self: it is insatiable. It is always, always hankering. It is what you might call rapacious to a fault. The great flaming mouth to the thing is never in this world going to be stuff full.

  Donald Barthelme

  Self, World, Mouths

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• 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.

  Mary Garden

  Giving Up, Writing, Track

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• I have seen the sun break through
  to illuminate a small field
  for a while, and gone my way
  and forgotten it. But that was the pearl
  of great price, the one field that had
  treasure in it. I realize now
  that I must give all that I have
  to possess it. Life is not hurrying
  on to a receeding future, nor hankering after
  an imagined past. It is the turning
  aside like Moses to the miracle
  of the lit bush, to a brightness
  that seemed as transitory as your youth
  once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

  R. S. Thomas

  Past, Break Through, Giving

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.96, Hachette UK

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• The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Nwo, Mind, New World Order

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• Spirituality is the science that teaches us how to achieve peace of mind and supreme satisfaction. Right now we are hankering after many, many things, but nothing we get satisfies us. Spirituality tells us that satisfaction can be found only if we lead a good and divine life-a life of simplicity, purity and humility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Humility, Simplicity, Mind

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• My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

  James Dean

  Purpose, Doe, Charm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

  Bertrand Russell

  Motivational, Courage, Atheist

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The ego is goal-oriented. The ego is hankering for the future. It can hanker even for the other life, it can hanker for heaven, it can hanker for nirvana. It doesn`t matter what it hankers for - hankering is what it is, desiring is what it is, projecting into the future is what it is.

  Rajneesh

  Goal, Heaven, Ego

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• There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

  Duncan Green

  Unions, Bigs, Trade

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Fruit, Absence

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• You have to establish your love. You should feel a hankering for others. Now the competition has to change, the style of competition among Sahaja Yogis. The competition should be how much you love. Who loves more ? Let there be a competition who obliges more, who shares more ? Who loves others more ?

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.

  David Mitchell

  Writing, Winter, Would Be

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

  Storm Jameson

  Law, Literature, Giver

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.78, A&C Black

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• Wasted is when you have a hankering for ice cream.

  Adam Sandler

  Ice Cream, Ice, Cream

  "Grown Ups". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• The people who are always hankering loudest for some golden yesteryear usually drive new cars.

  Russell Baker

  People, Car, Yesteryear

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• I thought about how stupid it is, that all of us are born destined to desire somebody else, though desire brings with it such disappointment and pain. Humankind's history must be scored bloody with heartbreak. This hankering for affection is a blight upon us.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Pain, Disappointment, Stupid

  Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?. Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Believe, Mean, Men

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• For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Stars, Rocks, Years

  "Portrait of the artist: Jon Bon Jovi, musician". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

  Mindy Kaling

  Adventure, Littles, Subway

  "The Funny Side of Love". nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

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• Katie had a fierce desire for survival which made her a fighter. Johnny had a hankering after immortality which made him a useless dreamer. And that was the great difference between these two who loved each other so well.

  Betty Smith

  Two, Differences, Dreamer

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

  Lin Yutang

  Thinking, Neckties, Clear

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• The relaxation should not be a method. You should not relax through a Yoga posture. This very understanding is relaxing, this very understanding is relaxation. You relax, effort disappears. You live your ordinary life - you chop wood and you carry water from the well and you cook food and you eat and you sleep and you love and you live ordinarily with no hankering and no desire for anything extraordinary.

  Rajneesh

  Yoga, Sleep, Water

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• So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop remarkably discerning palates, and they are not shy about demanding what they want. If they get a hankering, they just pick up the umbilical cord and call. 'You know what would taste good right now? A cheeseburger, large fries, and a vanilla shake. And if you could, hurry it up, because I'm supposed to grow a lung in a half hour.'

  Paul Reiser

  Baby, Half, Want

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• To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

  Roger L'Estrange

  Men, Wish, Venture

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• Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Passion, Heart, Mirrors

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