sehnsucht

• “There was in her a longing, a "sehnsucht," for she knew not what.”

  Lady Merton, Colonist

• “In that spirit, let me provide a link to a charming article on HP Lovecraft and CS Lewis, men who both were haunted by sehnsucht, the autumnal longing for things not of this world, half-remembered.”

  MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves

• “Pain, yes; tragedy, yes; and this greatest of Russians beats the Germans at their own game because there is no musical sehnsucht that can compare with his.”

  Archive 2007-01-01

• “Keine sehnsucht fühlte mein Herz; es wendete rückwärts”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846

• “His music is a series of psychoses -- he has the sehnsucht of a marvellously constituted nature -- and the shrill dissonance of his nerves, as seen in the physiological outbursts of the B minor Scherzo, is the agony of a tortured soul.”

  Chopin : the Man and His Music

• “It may be remarked that the lover's emotion has here unusual depth, a strain of _sehnsucht_; and the picture of the mother followed by her daughter in the country-dance suggests the domesticity of Northern races.”

  Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse

• “Never did the always-baffled, always reaespiring hope of the finite to compass the infinite find such expression, except in the sehnsucht of music.”

  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

• “Udo Lindenberg - Der Millionaer hat keine Kohle mehr hey play "Und endlich stirbt die sehnsucht doch" by Hans Eisler”

  WFMU's recent playlists

• “I won’t be seeing in the theater again, however, as I did with Iron Man (yesterday, because it’s just that fun) and Prince Caspian (tomorrow, because I have a yearning within me for sehnsucht, that indefinable sense of wonder).”

  Batman Gonna Take A Beating « the balcony fool

• “_sehnsucht_, the impalpable and intangible charm of melancholy and of thought.”

  Matthew Arnold

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