Desire Quote by As I Lay Dying

“We are all comatose. We are overfed and under...undernourished, yearning for something more.”

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We are not the same as I hope to show. There is a better way if we just let go.

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I will no longer turn my head I will never forget you. You are the one we left behind. You are the forsaken.

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In the tension between devouring want or simple need it's clear the only lines between the ones we preserve.

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Scattering pieces of my my restless mind. Forgetting all that we have left behind.

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I am a walking contradiction that's found consistency consuming everything, all without producing sustenance.

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“We've focused so long on ideals of freedom that it is this very belief that oppresses us. We all want to be free, yet…

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You brought an end to this dead hour and meaning to a calloused life.

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Never starving yet never quite satisfied. Carnal but without useful flesh or mind.

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I was scared to leave these walls in ruin like the fate of those who trust in themselvesl We are alone and afraidl

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I know you are the one we left behind. Yet somehow we are the ones who are alone you are the one we left…

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We speak of fighting to resist this world But what about the battle within us? If we have chosen to live against the grain.…

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We've built our confidence. On broken dreams now left for dead. Yet we've been condemned. To chase these dreams that never end.

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