I felt longing for the dogs even though they were on the floor next to me, still damp and smelling vaguely like mackerel.
Plato built on the ancient common sense that connected pleasure with the satisfaction of felt longing or desire and also on early scientific speculation equating pleasure with the fulfillment of bodily needs.
We've all felt loss, we've all felt longing, we've all questioned whether the things we're doing are worth it.
Their fascination with hacking, and the vital fecundity that enchanted them, attest to the widely felt longing for a deeper, somehow realer global democracy.
And yet, at the end of the day I still feel that longing – not for an assistant that does my bidding, but for a more evolved species that provides…great company.
When I listened to this song, over and over, I saw some of the landscape I was exploring those Michigan Upper Peninsula forests and felt that longing to return, to find the point of origination, the place where it all settles back down.
I felt myself longing for benevolent sexism, some, "How dare you talk to a lady like that!" But nothing.
The faded, muted light and color of those paintings captured my mood perfectly they felt like longing, golden, and hopeful beauty.
It makes you feel a longing for the unnameable thing that is always being lost (a feeling similar to the one you get from Lucas's second film, "American Graffiti," which helped make nostalgia big business), but it's a longing sweetened by the promise that in the future we'll figure out some way of getting that unnameable thing back.
