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Quotes About Waiting

All things come to him who waits, and among them is that unpleasant sensation of a cold hand upon the portion of the body which lies behind the third waistcoat button.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?
~ Pablo Neruda
Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who's never waited for anyone?
~ Pablo Neruda
Las lágrimas que no se lloran esperan en pequeños lagos? O serán ríos invisibles que corren hacia la tristeza?
~ Pablo Neruda
Mi vida, no hallarás en el pozo en que caes lo que yo guardo para ti en la altura.
~ Pablo Neruda
Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes? Or are they invisible rivers that run toward sadness?
~ Pablo Neruda
Sufre más el que espera siempre Que aquel que nunca esperó a nadie?
~ Pablo Neruda
Hay algo más triste en el mundo que un tren inmóvil en la lluvia?
~ Pablo Neruda
I know, I know, but here beside the water while the locusts chitter and sparkle, although they are waiting, I want to wait for myself. I too want to watch myself. I want to discover at last my own feelings. And when I reach the place where I am waiting, I expect to fall asleep, dying of laughter.
~ Pablo Neruda
Amor, te espero. Adiós, amor, te espero. Amor, amor, te espero.
~ Pablo Neruda
Las lagrimas que no se lloran Esperan en pequenos lagos? Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes? O seran rios invisibles Que corren hacia la tristeza? Or are they invisible rivers that run toward sadness?
~ Pablo Neruda
death stretches out like a clothesline, and then suddenly blows: blows a dark sound that swells the sheets and beds are sailing into a harbor where death is waiting, dressed as an admiral
~ Pablo Neruda
tudo me leva para ti, como se tudo o que existe, aromas, luz, metais, fossem pequenos barcos que navegam até às tuas ilhas que me esperam.
~ Pablo Neruda
Kažete da ste neshva?eni mladi prijatelju. Strpite se. I dijamant je u osnovu ugljenik, ali je umeo da ?eka.
~ Pablo Picasso
Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
~ Paolo Coelho
And the Great Adventure - the real life equivalent of all the adventure stories they'd devoured as boys - consisted of crouching in a dugout, waiting to be killed. The war that had promised so much in the way of 'manly' activity had actually delivered 'feminine' passivity, and on a scale that their mothers and sisters had hardly known. No wonder they broke down.
~ Pat Barker
I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
~ Pat Conroy
Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in the iridescent ointments of a charmed destiny.
~ Pat Conroy
Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin to think again. But now is the time to feel.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
His face, at once beautiful and feral, revealed no more than the lion's face, which says nothing at all as the lion crouches and waits. It speaks only when it springs.
~ Patricia A. McKillip
God will gladly give humility to us if, trusting and waiting on him to act, we refrain from pretending we are what we know we are not, from presuming a favorable position for ourselves and from pushing or trying to override the will of others.
~ Dallas Willard
cards. Twenty-four
~ Damian Harper
All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.
~ Dan Brown
silently awaiting news from her tracer. It was taking longer than expected. Her mind had been wandering—missing David and willing Greg Hale to go home. Although Hale hadn't budged, thankfully he'd
~ Dan Brown