Top Yearns Quotes
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Derek Walcott
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
Shana Alexander
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
Karl Kraus
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer
All Yearns Quotes
Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.
Derek Walcott 
58% of people like this quote
The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.
Shana Alexander 
52% of people like this quote
There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.
Karl Kraus 
52% of people like this quote
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko 
48% of people like this quote
Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer 
47% of people like this quote
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
Freda Adler 
46% of people like this quote

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