yearning

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1. yearning - Noun

2. yearning - Verb

Meaning

of Yearn

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time. John Steinbeck

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

A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks. Umberto Eco

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Emma Lazarus

Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning. Giotto di Bondone

While yearning for excess we lose the necessities. Persian Proverb

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