Mary Manin Morrissey

Deep down, I know that I am a child of God who has inherited divine capacities; some of them I strive to develop, others are left languishing. I also have a human side. I lose my temper, lose patience and sometimes judge others and myself.

American Celebrity

Jamal Khashoggi

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

Saudi Arabian Author

Nazanin Boniadi

Although each human rights victory energizes us to continue our work, there remains a deep sorrow for those prisoners still wrongfully languishing in jail.

British Actress

Mahatma Gandhi

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Indian Leader

Robert Kennedy

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

American Politician

Kelly Asbury

I've seen animation features just languish until the right combination of things come along to keep it alive.

American Director

John Gay

But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.

English Poet

Cedric Richmond

Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American.

Jim Norton

I like to keep busy, because otherwise I'd be languishing by myself.

American Comedian

Andrei Platonov

Russian Writer

Used when emphasizing the discomfort of staying in an unwanted situation over time.

Unpleasant Duration

Implies a lack of choice for the person suffering.

Forced Circumstances

Describes a gradual decline in power, vigor, or vitality.

Loss of Strength

Conveys a decrease in emotional enthusiasm or energy.

Emotional Wane

Highlights an intense missing coupled with hopelessness due to separation.

Longing and Absence

Stresses the deep emotional state of desiring something untouchable or lost.

Emotional Intensity

Focuses on the frustratingly slow movement or development in a process.

Delay in Progress

Involves a sense of something being ignored or not getting the attention it deserves.

Neglect Causes Delay

 So why despair when the unexpected knocks on the horizon? It is in our nature to create anew, to be inventive and innovative, so why languish in idle expectation of a savior from above? So it is time for us Africans to take our destiny in our hands and realize we have agency in the scheme of life.

Why I choose humanism...

 They had languished there for 40 days. They were tortured in jail, and they were lashed with a whip in court. Fortunately, their case was dismissed, but the community in which they lived were not satisfied with the verdict. They waited outside the courtroom, armed with rocks intending to stone

"Where Love Is Illegal":...

 You know, we keep ourselves busy to the point of exhaustion, but we're also languishing. We feel a little bid dead inside. And I think we know that, on some level. I think that's part of the reason we keep ourselves so busy and distracted to begin with. But we don't know what to do about it.

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 that agreed to these voluntary regulations, but back in Washington, this proposal has simply languished. We have an administration that would rather sell more weapons abroad with fewer restrictions, including to some of those countries accused of abusing surveillance technology.

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 The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is often the healthy respect between men and women who appreciate the contributions each other makes to society. The difference between a languishing nation and one that will flourish

Michelle Obama's plea...

 we can put our ideas together and cooperate to have a prosperity that we couldn't have before we acquired it. And this is why our species has prospered around the world while the rest of the animals sit behind bars in zoos, languishing.

Mark Pagel: How language...

 The end of the universe is coming. There are a few ways it could happen, but the most likely is called the heat death, and it's an agonizing, slow languishing of the cosmos. Stars burn out and leave smoldering ash.

Katie Mack: The death of...

 than just simply helping refugees survive. We can help them thrive. We should think of refugee camps and communities as more than just temporary population centers where people languish

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 which incidentally is Judi Dench's birthday. But he didn't die on Dench's birthday. He languished until the following afternoon when he finally succumbed

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 to talk about their utter lack of excitement. And -- I think -- I think that naming languishing helped people make sense of some puzzling experiences.

Languish