Quotes About Longing

He didn't feel he had the ability to follow her into those reveries or the right to call her back out.

What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

Death holds no allure for me, Elena." The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. "Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.

Hierarchy, as in the Catholic Church, has to do with power, and vertical attention has to do with longing.

The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power.

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 don't ever want to get old. Spare me that. Have you the power? No, even you don't have the power, alas.

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.

Power is like a woman you want to stay in bed with forever.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

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

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

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.

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.

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.

There's no prayer like desire.

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

You haunt my days and dreams.

Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.