1. yearn - Noun
2. yearn - Verb
To curdle, as milk.
To pain; to grieve; to vex.
To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry
I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. Richard Russo
One is never too old to yearn. Italian Proverb
If you give away what you have, you will not yearn for what you see. Mexican Proverb