10 Metaphors for longings

Horace, born 65 B.C., like Virgil was also a favored man, enjoying the friendship of the great, and possessing ease, fame, and fortune; but his longings for retirement and his disgust at the frivolities around him are a sad commentary on satisfied desires.

She was overwhelmed with this regret, this longing to be a religieuse.

That keen and even intense longing for a particular woman is accordingly a direct pledge of the immortality of the essence of our being and of its perpetuity in the species.

With longings after love were, united longings after immortality, when the mind would revel forever in the contemplation of eternal ideas and the solution of mysteries,a sort of Dantean heaven.

He meant to marry Grace; his longing for her was keener than he had felt it yet, but it was not altogether selfish.

My longing to assuage the lot of Diaz became almost an anguish.

Sometimes I think that this intense longing for happiness is one proof more that happiness is awaiting us in another world.

My longing, my feelings, are melodies seeking a song to cling to!

The longing of the soul for beauty is love.

The longing became a necessity.

10 Metaphors for  longings