If "longing" is indeed one of the catch phrases of nostalgia, I wonder if ETA Hoff. and Goethe might fit your bill, too. From Wordnik.com. [Every night, they say, he sings the herd to sleep] Reference
But, though progressives know that, the longing is acute and the temptation to rebind themselves to such impulses strong. From Wordnik.com. [What Obama Could Learn From Tony Blair] Reference
Yearn'd with vain longing — still thy patient eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Sceptic] Reference
My longing is so violent naught like it ere was seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
On the other I feel nostalgic in longing ways at times. From Wordnik.com. [Hooping.org | Blog | DeAnn DeLuna: Inside The Hoop] Reference
Even though you will want it to, there will be a certain longing after. From Wordnik.com. [I love. «] Reference
Beside a full-flowing river in autumn this longing is strong and urgent. From Wordnik.com. [The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing] Reference
If you go by the dimension beyond the body, the longing is to become boundless. From Wordnik.com. [Sadhguru: Yoga: A Dimension Beyond the Physical] Reference
For who has ever verified the supposition that longing is something merely human?. From Wordnik.com. [Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy] Reference
But living outside of the states lends itself to a certain longing for familiarity. From Wordnik.com. [Superama Mama] Reference
Posted at 05: 13 PM in longing, panama, personal, sociologie/anthropologie | Permalink. From Wordnik.com. [galleon trade edition] Reference
That one thought, that longing, is always present, yet she has been confined some four years. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Days in a Mad-House] Reference
Where both of them were struck in longing — he behind the great glass, she behind the gray boy. From Wordnik.com. [Wednesday Shout Out : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
She wanted to shut out everything that would remind her of beautiful things, that might set her off again longing, desiring. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted April] Reference
As she sat by their sick-beds, her thoughts went often in longing to Gaetano, and many were the times when she wished that he were at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel] Reference
How pathetically the old woman recalls the longing of the eager girl!. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in American Literature] Reference
Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. From Wordnik.com. [Playing the Field] Reference
My longing was to be a seaman, and my mother, who was at first opposed to it, gave consent, and. From Wordnik.com. [Pixy's Holiday Journey] Reference
I've not lived like that, but I've always looked toward those households with a certain longing. From Wordnik.com. [An Interview with Linda Kahn] Reference
Furthermore, even a painful desire for what someone else possesses might be better described as longing than envy. From Wordnik.com. [Envy] Reference
Some of us call it longing. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
Still, that longing is there. From Wordnik.com. [Let Me Know When I Am Done | Her Bad Mother] Reference
I had thought it to be an expression of longing. From Wordnik.com. [Peace Meals] Reference
Also in the rather loose category of "longing" are more intense experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Want to Experience God? You Already Have: Uncommon Longings] Reference
Disturbing emotions, such as longing desire and anger, are also true causes of our suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 1 The Four Noble Truths in Terms of Mental Activity] Reference
She caressed my little cocky for a moment or two, which gave me a kind of longing for her to go on. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference
"Uh-uh," Tess said politely, trying to project the kind of longing she knew mothers expected of nonmothers. From Wordnik.com. [Butchers Hill]
But there's also a kind of longing for the life you had, or could have had — a different kind of life altogether. From Wordnik.com. [Grappling With Haiti’s Beasts] Reference
Sometimes a disturbing emotion may also accompany the constructive action, such as longing desire for her to love me back. From Wordnik.com. [The Mechanism of Karma: The Mahayana Presentation, Except for Gelug Prasangika ��� Session Two: Mental Factors Associated with Karma] Reference
I don't hang out with kids much, but I ride the subways and I know that kids are magnetic force fields of "longing" from infancy on up. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-03] Reference
This has given rise to the idea that the "longing" is impressed on that part of the body which the mother is touching during her desire. From Wordnik.com. [Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution] Reference
I have taken a fancy to walk on the common, that is all — a kind of longing; and you must come with me; quite to ourselves, you and I. From Wordnik.com. [Wylder's Hand] Reference
A kind of longing seems to come over me for the London stink. From Wordnik.com. [My Lady's Money] Reference
I almost feel sad about it and have a kind of longing to hear it again. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The strain is that strain of unsatisfied longing which is to be heard among all peoples. From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
I felt a great ache, which was not really an ache, and a new kind of longing which never before, in all my life, I had nursed or known. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie Child] Reference
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