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Quotes About Impatience

and I'm already longing for him the way I long for Christmas in July.
~ Jenny Han
These people long for immortality but can't wait ten minutes for a cup of coffee," she says.
~ Jenny Offill
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled over every word in a letter, taken four hours to write a two-sentence email, watched the phone praying it will ring; who doesn't lay awake at night sick with the image of her sleeping with someone else?
~ Jess Walter
I want that quiet rapture agin. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick join the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I want to feel that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I feel excited; but I do not want to be, for that is not right. I want that quiet rapture again. I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of the books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken again the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Please let the wind of desire that rose from the multi-coloured spines of those books catch me up again, let it melt the heavy, lifeless lead weight that is there somewhere inside me, and awaken in me once again the impatience of the future, the soaring delight in the world of the intellect – let it carry me back into the ready-for-anything lost world of my youth.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
I want to feel the same powerful, nameless urge that I used to feel when I turned to my books. The breath of desire that then arose from the coloured backs of books, shall fill me again, melt the heavy, dead lump of lead that lies somewhere in me and waken in me the impatience of the future, the quick joy in the world of thought, it shall bring back again the lost eagerness of my youth. I sit and wait.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
like a woman in a ball gown sitting at a bus stop.
~ Ethan Canin
SpuneÅ£i repede, domnule, c? n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihn?.
~ Eugene Ionesco
She couldn't decide if he was a bit mad or if the world moved too slowly for him. Perhaps a little of both.
~ Andrew Mayne
I wanted to ask her what the fuck was wrong but I had a date with a pack of skittish whores.
~ Andrew Vachss
No. I've no time to waste. Winter's coming.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.
~ Angie Sage
Come on, hurry up," Marcia snapped impatiently at the spiral stairs. Taking her at her word, the stairs sped up to double daytime speed,
~ Angie Sage
As my love for her grew more poignant and more threatened my impatience and my weariness grew.
~ Anita Brookner
I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
~ Dave Barry
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
~ Damian Lewis
We live in a world where a lot of people are dissatisfied and can't wait, in 140 characters or less, to tell you how dissatisfied they are.
~ Joe Buck
The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
~ Tom Harkin
I'm not the easiest person in the world to be partners with. I'm never home. I'm constantly running around the world. I can be impatient. I have a temper. I'm, like, self-obsessed. I'm irritable, self-absorbed.
~ Jake Shears
I had a temper problem even before I did this film, but doing 'Arjun Reddy' has made me more impatient.
~ Vijay Deverakonda