Quotes About Waiting

past, nearly sideswiping them. "But if you'd been brave and come to me, I would have adopted her, Daniel. I would have forgiven you and I would have taken her in. I waited for you to say something, but you never did. I waited for days, then weeks, then years." "Ismay, you can believe what you want, but Marian Wallace

THE DETAILS OF dying are sad and grinding: breathing and waiting and breathing and waiting. The body, brilliant machine, knows how and when to close up shop. But Caroline was so strong, and so determined, that even in this final task she moved toward the end with bracing force.

Even in the running away from hurting, there is hurting. In opening unprotected to the experience that is enslaving you with its torment, there is the willingness to be free. Are you willing? Or do yo just want to wait until the world finally gets it and does it your way?

But I wondered why they had waited for Eve's illness to make themselves available for companionship.

Sometimes it's like that. You know something good is coming, and even though it's not even close yet, still, just knowing it's coming is enough to make you snort and nicker. Sort of.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

Madame Rosa dit que la vie peut etre très belle mais qu'on ne l'a pas encore vraiment trouvèe et qu'en attendant il faut bien vivre.

I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain would never come back: my daddy and Jesus. At least with Jesus I knew he wasn't gone because of something I did

Hoping something will happen soon, so she can sit down & watch it with a fresh bowl of popcorn.

even after all these winters, I see you sitting there, perched at the edge of sunlight, feeling like the invitation of spring

Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing

It's not surrendering to the Universe, he told me, if all you're doing is sitting around waiting for it to turn out like you hope. —Partial Surrender

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot. It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

Maybe there was nothing to be done but wait out his adolescence, and hope that at the end of it all he might be a person who would want to talk to you.

Even if all the clocks in the station break down, thought Hugo, time won't stop. Not even if you really want it to. Like now.

You can wait only so long for a blackened window to be illuminated.

Patience involves the capacity to bear with annoyances and to endure delays to our timetable.

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train.

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

Time becomes very weird. Sometimes it seems as if the hours are rushing by in a blur, the moment of performance hurtling toward me. Other times the clock seems to poke along like a sloth with chronic fatigue syndrome.

and time was empty without you to see it.

Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even years on occasion, for the splatter of applause to reach our ears, if indeed we are not damned by total neglect.