Quotes About Yearning

RUTH: If you take the glass…I'll take you.

Power has always corrupted, my dear. Even the promise of power. It is a hard thing to look at through the fence for hundreds of years without wondering what it would be like on the other side.

Desire for power is a kind of greed indulged by the unfulfilled

I loved him, more than anything else in the world and that when he was away it was hard to breath and that I couldn't go through a single second without thinking about him.

If he touches me, I will succumb. I know the power he wields over me and my traitorous body. I know.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Your desire is your prayer.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

You are the dream I live with; you are the wish I'd made, the name I always whisper in every prayer I pray ... now that you left me, while you forget me, I'll hold you in my dreams.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.