If they lack fulfillment, memories of old longings seem to suffice.

Glancing at his figure, Laura felt the old longing for him twist like a knife in her stomach.

I would battle through again, suffer the old longings, dream dreams, be alone.

Yet the old longings rose up from deep where she had banished them.

He could feel the pull of his old longing for her.

But fame and honor had done nothing to satisfy the old longing.

All that comes home to you, however, are those strange old longings.

The old longing came to life in him.

Then he strolled sadly down the hall, all his old longing revived, because she was now so far off.

The sound brought back old longings to him that he had thought were long buried.