Had Ann's yearning for love been the breath blowing to flame Katie's yearning for understanding?

"Yearning is religion," Bedient added.

It had been fairly easy to keep awake until then, but as the room grew darker and darker, and nothing happened, the yearning to fall asleep became actual agony.

The yearning for all that he had left behind became a pain almost beyond endurance.

Your songs shall be the words of my happiness, your yearning shall be the expression of my own aching heart.

Our yearnings are homesickness for heaven; our sighings are for God; just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents.

" Man yearns after more than he can gain here; that yearning is the mark of his higher nature and the means of progress.