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• Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.

  Giotto di Bondone

  Travel, Echoes, Rome

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• 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

  Humanity, Age, World

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• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Relationship, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.273, Penguin

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• In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

  Clarence Darrow

  Men, Support, Religion

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• I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

  Rod Taylor

  Wisdom, Artist, Feet

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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

  George Eliot

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of exiles.

  Emma Lazarus

  Mother, New York, Sunset

  "The New Colossus" l. 1 (1883).

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  Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Sad, Lonely

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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• Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Wall, Cutting, Kissing

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• Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart to settle with his Lord shall be in a state, calm and tranquility, and whosoever sent it amongst the people shall be disturbed and excessively perturbed.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again... The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

  Jonathan Lethem

  New York, Writing, Energy

  "Straight outta Brooklyn". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

  Tupac Shakur

  Romantic, Greatness, Rapper

  Song: The Eternal Lament

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• We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

  Dave Earley

  Soul, Longing, Hunger

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• I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

  Helen Keller

  Sad, Flower, Ex Boyfriend

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• Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

  Herta Muller

  Sight, People, Everyday

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• I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality to praise, now that I realize the deepest yearning of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Effort, Quality

  Og Mandino (1988). “The Greatest Salesman in the World: Featuring the Ten Vows of Success. The end of the story”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Dream, Hurt, Heart

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• When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

  Margaret Sanger

  Mom, Mother, Children

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.232, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  Emma Lazarus

  Tired, Civilization, Urbanization

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  Hall Caine

  Men, Expression, Circles

  Hall Caine (2016). “The Scapegoat”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

  Alfred Adler

  Goal, Psychology, Feelings

  From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives, 1923.

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• When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Birth, Ends

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• I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

  Patrick MacGill

  Military, War, Army

  Patrick MacGill (2008). “The Amateur Army”, Forbes Press

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• Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

  Kevin Spacey

  Film, Capacity, Wanted

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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