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«My feelings for you shame me into silence. The truth of this and your name will never be revealed. It is you who has made me realize the failure of my life. The thought of you fills me with longing and at the same time, a burning humiliation that produces scar tissue and dead brain cells. Your existence mocks me and I am unable to confront this. You have no idea of any of this. None of this is your fault. It is completely with me. It is you who makes me see what I really am. I am weak and out of touch with myself.»
«Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told.»
Author: Paul Simon (Singer, Song Writer) | About: Love, Words | Keywords: bold, I Love You, longing, style
«Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.»
Author: Ramakrishna | Keywords: followed, longing, rosy, The Vision
«So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition»
«Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to»
«Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.»
«There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.»
«There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing»
«Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Music | Keywords: deaf, dumb, longing, musical
«Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct»

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