"Desire is an appetite, quickly sated. Longing is a wound, an opening in the heart or the spirit. Whatever the cause, whatever the duration, it almost always leaves a scar."

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Source : Philip Sington (2012). “The Valley of Unknowing”, p.62, Random House

Philip Sington

#Heart Quotes #Desire Quotes #Duration Quotes

“Being human, we can only receive infinite truth in finite doses”
“I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.”
“My songs don't play on pop radio; they play on black radio.”
“Is there so much anger in the minds of the gods?”
“I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.”
“I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.”
“I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.”
“I have a lot of different traits to my personality, depending on who I'm around, and what the dynamic in the situation is.”

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