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Yearning

noun

Prolonged unfulfilled desire or need. Synonyms: hungriness, longing.

Yearn

verb

(past & past part. yearned; pres. part. yearning)

Desire strongly or persistently. Synonyms: hanker, long.

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present. Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yen. "I am pining for my lover"

Have affection for; feel tenderness for.

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"Yearning" Quotes from Famous Books

... or "Peer Gynt" and ask such questions? No heart so overflowed with human yearning, no soul ever breathed grander, nobler ideals than Henrik Ibsen. True, he did not prostrate himself before the idols of the conventional mob, nor did his sacrificial fires burn on the altar of mediocrity ...

— Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature • Various

... airy sprite, the beholder feels an exhilarating influence steal over him, and involuntarily there goes up from his heart, like incense, that yearning prayer: ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... of lives teemed forth from the mighty embracement. Thousand-fold tribes of dwellers, impelled by thousand-fold instincts, Filled, as a dream, the wide waters; the rivers sang on their channels; 30 Laughed on their shores the hoarse seas; the yearning ocean swelled upward; Young life lowed through the meadows, the woods, and the echoing mountains, Wandered bleating in valleys, and ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... horses, and with a good company of men-at-arms set off on their journey over the rocky plains. Five days were they riding before they came within sight of the blue sea with its ships and its quiet green islands. That sight brought a restless yearning into Olaf's spirit. It seemed as if nothing would now content him but that he should go out upon the wide ocean and spend all his days in roving. And so much did he speak of the ships and of the viking ...

— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton

... nightingale that leans his breast on the thorn, the note of self-sacrifice and yearning tenderness had gone out ...

— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

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