Quotes About Waiting

Woe to him who could look on and say: The fool! If she had waited, if she had let time do its work, her despair would surely have subsided, another man would have turned up to comfort her.— That's just like saying: The fool, dying of fever! If he had waited until his strength returned, his circulation improved, the tumult of his blood calmed down, everything would have turned out well and he would still be alive today!

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.

I've come to believe that every one who reaches the best that life holds for him reaches it through some Desert of Waiting.

The trick in life is to hang out until the miracles come.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

While we wait for life, life passes

There is no good reason. Don't waste your life waiting for good reasons...You'll wait and wait.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death?

And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice

It seems to be my mission in life to wait on a dog.

All human life can be found in an airport.

I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it; everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.

Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.