"I knew even back in your century that you were the one for me, the one I'd longed for all my life."

In retirement, he had given her mother finally the things she had longed for all her life.

Only an all but unbearable ache of loss, knowing that a world which he'd longed for all his life was gone forever.

Rosenthal is pleased: "It was the face he'd longed for all his life."

Giovanna longs for her simple life back home.

To be in his arms, skin to skin, was the bliss I had longed for all my life.

One that I have longed for all my life.

He could love her, he realized; she was the kind of woman he had longed for all his life, without ever realizing it.

I felt enveloped and warmed by a feeling of family I'd longed for all my life.

Though there are those who'll be bound to say that it's what I've secretly longed for all my life.