There were great depths of compassion yearnings toward the ideal in this walled in existence that had to be fed - The Salamander by Owen Johnson

Logically then thoughts of and yearnings for death are much more frequent with Lenau than with Heine - Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

As he neared manhood strange yearnings had come to him a dreary loneliness and craving for company - "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Morgan Robertson