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Definition of Longing
Longing

of Long

An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.

Related Definitions:
An, Appetite, Aspiration, Craving, Desire, Eager, Earnest, Long, Morbid, Of, Wish


Longing Quotations

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Kahlil Gibran

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
George Eliot

Longing Translations

longing in Dutch is verlangend, smachtend
longing in Italian is ansioso
longing in Latin is cupido
longing in Norwegian is lengselsfull, lengsel
longing in Spanish is anhelo


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