All 6 Uses of
yearn
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- We reach the shelter of the reserves and yearn to creep in and disappear;—but instead we must turn round and plunge again into the horror.
p. 115.3 *yearn = strongly desire
- My desires are strangely compounded of yearning and misery.
p. 149.3yearning = full of longing or tender emotion
- But then unexpectedly a flame of grievous and terrible yearning flares up.
p. 274.5yearning = longing or strong desire
- When these peasants are excited they have a curious expression, a mixture of cow and yearning god, half stupid and half rapt.
p. 276.9yearning = expressing strong desire for
- All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings—greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance.
p. 294.1yearning = strong desire
- It cannot be that it has gone, the yearning that made our blood unquiet, the unknown, the perplexing, the oncoming things, the thousand faces of the future, the melodies from dreams and from books, the whispers and divinations of women; it cannot be that this has vanished in bombardment, in despair, in brothels.
p. 294.9
Definition:
have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have