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Quotes About Waiting

Voi fi întotdeauna cel care a aÈ™teptat s? i se deschid? uÈ™a, în faÈ›a unui perete f?r? u??".
~ Fernando Pessoa
There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel external things, and everything transforms into a night of rain and mud where, lost in the solitude of an out-of-the-way station, I wait interminably for the next third-class train.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I placidly wait for what I don't know- My future and the future of everything. In the end there will only be silence except Where the waves of the sea bathe nothing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Io mi siedo sulla soglia e immergo il mio sguardo e il mio udito nei colori e nei suoni del paesaggio e canto piano piano, per me soltanto, dei vaghi canti che compongo nell'attesa.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors
~ Fernando Pessoa
I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don't know where it will take me, because I don't know anything. I could see this inn as a prison, for I'm compelled to wait in it; I could see it as a social centre, for it's here that I meet others.
~ Fernando Pessoa
É tão magno o tédio, tão soberano o horror de estar vivo, que não concebo que coisa haja que pudesse servir de lenitivo, de antídoto, de bálsamo ou esquecimento para ele. Dormir horroriza-me como tudo. Morrer horroriza-me como tudo. Ir e parar são a mesma coisa impossível. Esperar e descrer equivalem-se em frio e cinza. Sou uma prateleira de frascos vazios.
~ Fernando Pessoa
No tenemos, es cierto, un concepto de valor de aplicación a la obra que realizamos. La realizamos, es verdad, para distraernos, pero no como el preso que teje el esparto tratando de distraer al Destino, sino como la niña que borda almohadas para distraerse sin más. Considero la vida un apeadero donde tengo que esperar hasta que llegue la diligencia del abismo. No
~ Fernando Pessoa
Seré siempre el que esperó a que le abrieran la puerta, junto a un muro sin puerta
~ Fernando Pessoa
For me life is an inn where I must stay until the carriage from the abyss calls to collect me. I don't know where that carriage will take me because I know nothing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Nothing needs to be done On the eve of never departing.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Considero a vida uma estalagem onde tenho que me demorar até que chegue a diligência do abismo.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Like happiness, the day was taking a long time to arrive, and at that hour, it felt as if it never would.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Te estoy esperando, como distracción, en nuestro cuarto de dos puertas y te sueño llegando a mi sueño y en mi sueño entras hasta mí por la puerta de la derecha; si al entrar lo hicieras por la puerta de la izquierda, habría ya un contraste entre mi sueño y tú.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Já duas vezes te disse Que nunca mais te diria O que te torno a dizer E fica para outro dia.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up.
~ Fernando Pessoa
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Thomas had inherited his father's reason without his ruthlessness and his mother's love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His plan for all practical action was to wait and see what developed.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Life's darker side: that's Advent.
~ Fleming Rutledge
I might actually get a calendar just to cross them down to feel like the days are going faster.
~ Jofra Archer
Every year in Edinburgh, I end up waiting behind the curtain about to go on stage, and I have a moment of thinking, 'No one's told me what to do with this show. I've done exactly what I wanted. This is the biggest arts festival in the world, and all these people have shown up. Aren't I lucky?' It really is amazing.
~ James Acaster
I don't want to fill my life with clutter because when the right man comes along, there will be no space for him to fit in.
~ Pooja Bedi
I'm sort of, like, always a bridesmaid, and finally a bride.
~ Jen Psaki
I get to be a real adventurer with my fishing work. The acting work is free, I always say I get paid for the waiting around.
~ Robson Green