Earl returns to the forest where, he thinks, "my spirit belongs and my soul longs to be."

The soul longs for passion, for freedom, for life.

The soul longs for freedom, yet cannot detach itself from the body.

This was what every human soul longed for: serenity, calm, the peace that passeth understanding.

The soul beyond them was not dead and longed for death.

It smote against the soul's broken core and the soul longed for death.

The soul longs to be united with the higher world of Lights and, if it is properly instructed by the qutb saint of the time or by one of his disciples, can even catch a glimpse of this here below.

I saw her; and all my soul and body, scourged by the god's anger and ridden almost to death, longed for her breast and her warm arms as a child flies to its mother from the terrors of the dark.

His engineer's soul longed to make some of the physical repairs, but those would have required not only time he didn't have but spare parts or a fully functional replicator, neither of which was immediately to hand either.

But there were times, particularly in the spring, when his elven soul longed for the woodland home he had left forever.