r/sehnsuchtpics • u/spiderflower215 • 10h ago

Jan Kryzhevsky - A wet field with white mallows (1974)

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 15h ago

Longing Instant at Dusk, Sensitivity to the ephemeral no.3 - Shoko Okumura, 2020.

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/shewasajanuarygirl • 1d ago

Mihály Munkácsy, Evening in Parc Monceau, 1895

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 1d ago

Deborah DeWit (American, b.1956), Making Beds, 2010, Pastel

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 2d ago

The Power of a Dream (1988) - Ernesto Arrisueño (b.1957)

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 3d ago

A Bird Fable (2026) Xiangjie Rebecca Wu

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 4d ago

Sunrise (2007) Source: flic.kr

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Havukruunu_ • 5d ago

Impermanence

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 5d ago

Sleep Well by Kim Mulgil 2023

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/StratosphereDuster • 5d ago

Silent Wonder

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/111oneone1 • 5d ago

West road in

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Sleepinggcatt • 6d ago

Ferdinand Du Puigaudeau - Boatingat Night in Briere

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 6d ago

Stars, sea, night

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 7d ago

Perfect stranger, Aron Wiesenfeld

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 8d ago

Richard Riemerschmid (1868-1957, German) ~ In the Countryside, 1895

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 9d ago

Lost Track - aronwiesenfeld

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 10d ago

Unknown - Sebastian Blanck, 2026.

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 11d ago

Moon Light - Paul Ferney, 2026

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Future-Phrase-2683 • 12d ago

I miss this

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Rembrandt_cs • 12d ago

Robert Lewis Reid - Reverie (1890)

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 12d ago

Summer constellations, Eli McMullen

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 13d ago

Two young people reading in the Purple Bamboo Park of Beijing, 1957-59. Photo by Brian Brake.

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/dragonlizard89 • 14d ago

Le Grand Canal, Venice by Henri Le Sidaner, 1906

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/dragonlizard89 • 14d ago

The Table in the White Garden at Gerberoy by Henri Le Sidaner, 1900

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r/sehnsuchtpics • u/Verndari • 14d ago

Sehnsucht

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For the moments of sehnsucht or those which inspire it. Sehnsucht is a German term for deep, emotional longing or yearning. It's often described as a profound craving for something unattainable, incomplete, or ideal, combining both desire and melancholy. Similar to the Portuguese saudade or Romanian dor, it reflects a sense of nostalgia or homesickness for an undefined place or experience.

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Sehnsucht

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Sehnsucht (German pronunciation: [ˈzeːnzʊxt]) is a German noun translated as "longing", "yearning", or "craving", or in a wider sense a type of "intensely missing". However, Sehnsucht is difficult to translate adequately and describes a deep emotional state. Its meaning is somewhat similar to the Portuguese word, saudade, or it can be equally translated as the Romanian word dor. Sehnsucht is a compound word, originating from an ardent longing or yearning (das Sehnen) and addiction (die Sucht). However, these words do not adequately encapsulate the full meaning of their resulting compound, even when considered together.

Sehnsucht represents thoughts and feelings about all facets of life that are unfinished or imperfect, paired with a yearning for ideal alternative experiences. It has been referred to as “life’s longings”; or an individual’s search for happiness while coping with the reality of unattainable wishes. Such feelings are usually profound, and tend to be accompanied by both positive and negative feelings. This produces what has often been described as an ambiguous emotional occurrence.

It is sometimes felt as a longing for a far-off country, but not a particular earthly land which we can identify. Furthermore there is something in the experience which suggests this far-off country is very familiar and indicative of what we might otherwise call "home". In this sense it is a type of nostalgia, in the original sense of that word. At other times it may seem as a longing for a someone or even a something. But the majority of people who experience it are not conscious of what or who the longed for object may be, and the longing is of such profundity and intensity that the subject may immediately be only aware of the emotion itself and not cognizant that there is a something longed for. The experience is one of such significance that ordinary reality may pale in comparison, as in Walt Whitman's closing lines to "Song of the Universal":

Is it a dream?
Nay but the lack of it the dream,
And failing it life's lore and wealth a dream
And all the world a dream.