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Quotes About Waiting

so if you love him, why keep him waiting for 13 years?" "Because I was afraid. Afraid of not being worthy, afraid of not knowing how to love him, afraid of waking up one day and not loving him anymore.
~ Guillaume Musso
On calm days, you always think you've conquered them. You think that in the end you've finally done them in. That you've got rid of them for good, now and forever. But that seldom happens. Most of the time, the demons are still there, lurking somewhere in the shadows. Tirelessly waiting for the moment when our guard drops. And when love goes away...
~ Guillaume Musso
Allora non si parlava di Internet, e-mail, Skype o sms. Allora le lettere d'amore partite dalla Francia impiegavano dieci giorni ad arrivare in Califonria. Allora, quando si scriveva «Ti amo», bisognava attendere la risposta tre settimane. E attendere tre settimane la risposta a un «Ti amo» era assolutamente disumano, per un ventenne.
~ Guillaume Musso
Et attendre un « je t'aime » pendant trois semaines, c'est pas vraiment humain lorsqu'on a vingt ans.
~ Guillaume Musso
It can't be that late already. It can't be. She's had all day, all night to say good-bye to him and she hasn't even begun.
~ Guillermo del Toro
I have not let myself be stultified by science, whose highest goal is to furnish a `waiting room', which it would be best to tear down.
~ Gustav Meyrink
Nosotros esperaremos regularmente a que se haya borrado la última huella para empezar a buscarla.
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Reality is the most effective mask of reality. Our fondest wish, attained, ceases to be our fondest wish. Success is the greatest of disappointments. The spirit is most alive when it is lost. Anxiety was Kafka's composure, as despair was Kierkegaard's happiness. Kafka said impatience is our greatest fault. The man at the gate of the Law waited there all of his life.
~ Guy Davenport
No one can be free who believes freedom is coming.
~ Guy Finley
Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.
~ Guy Kawasaki
You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.
~ Guy Kawasaki
You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here–through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Te espero por siempre
~ Hector Tobar
I will wait for you forever.
~ Hector Tobar
sometimes I wait for you at the exact edge of the jetty where we left each other. Sometimes I disappear into an unconscious hole and lie there silted up in stories having nothing to do with the vigorous immediacy of our epic.
~ Helene Cixous
I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time. I listen. Perhaps the waiting is a form of prayer.
~ Helene Cixous
Father, dear father, come home with me now,The clock in the belfry strikes one;You said you were coming right home from the shopAs soon as your day's work was done.
~ H. C. Work
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
~ H. G. Bohn
He died. And waited.
~ James Herbert
Though in her late thirties, she had no fears of spinsterhood because she had been assiduously courted for fifteen years by Charlie Hudson from the Darrowby fish shop and though Charlie was not a tempestuous suitor there was nothing flighty about him and he was confidently expected to pop the question over the next ten years or so. Mr.
~ James Herriot
Joy it is in everything and anything we might experience; God has placed it all around us... My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
One is often so busy, they forget the life that is waiting for them.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
I will wait for you, No matter how long. For you to understand. "It's the imperfections that make you beautiful
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Answer me this.... Does the one who is always waiting suffer more than the one who's never waited for anyone?
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)