longing
Speech parts
1. longing - Noun
2. longing - Verb
Meaning
of Long
An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration.
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America is a country ready to be taken, in fact, longing to be taken by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.
The sack of longing has no bottom.
Who has not had a taste longs to do so, but for whom has tasted then the longing is a hundred times more.
The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.