Yawning Quotes

“Some don’t want to be happy, inasmuch as they undergo happiness merely as languor and yawning. They are dissatisfied with a bland and vacuous state of glee and, instead, prefer to keep on running like raging bulls through the whims and quirks of life. In reality, their dissatisfaction is their contentment. ("Happiness blowing in the wind" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

“You grieve at first. And then slowly, with the yawning of the years, the disappeared gets scraped from your memory, the way your flesh can be peeled from your limbs. It's very harsh and extremely painful. But it gets done, square inch-by-square inch. Until, the skin that is your memory gets completely scarred and numbed. You live. The disappeared is detached from the dermis of remembering. And that is what is known as moving on.”
― Psyche Roxas-Mendoza The Unlamented

“ينتهي شهر العسل عندما نتوقف عن التنهد ونبدأ في التثاؤب”
― أنيس منصور, قالوا

“I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises. But I don’t want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That’s why I’m constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

“I yawned, which is my cover for everything.”
― Jennifer Dubois, A Partial History of Lost Causes

“Reading your work out loud to yourself it's good. It helps even more if you read to people. If they start yawning that is a bad sign. Unless you are writing for children. Then your story is not bad, if you just wrote a bedtime story!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, How to Make a Book

“Charles yawned out of his body, out of the depth of all its cavities the remains of yesterday. The yawning was convulsive as if his body wanted to turn itself inside out. In this way he got rid of the sand and ballast, the undigested remains of the previous day.”
― Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles

“Yawning feels good, it aerates the mind.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“He yawned, his face performing that universal mixture of a smile and a frown as he stretched his arms out. One was not sure why faces did this—either waking people were activating their muscles in preparation for the day or more soulfully, the smile was gratitude for life and the frown to follow was recognition of what that life entailed.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, A Happy Ghost

“The yawning reflect lights up the same part of our brain that is associated with empathy, bonding, play, and creativity. So please let that soft animal of your body, or that little boy or little girl in you, yawn to his or her heart's content!”
― Dan Brulé, Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork / The Oxygen Advantage

“The saddest part of reality is that while a few are belching, a great many are yawning.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Burn Like Fire