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Quotes About Waiting

I am the flying saucer man from another world trapped on yours until they come to rescue me. One day the saucer will land. Jimi Hendrix and John Coltrane will open the hatch and tell me to get in before someone tries to blow up the ship. I'll just ask what took them so long. Within seconds we'll be out of here.
~ Henry Rollins
perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
My heart is making a dull, drumming sound and I'm thinking that my life is a waiting game and I'm sinkin' all the while.
~ Henry Rollins
Time is: Too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~ Henry Van Dyke
Learn to labour and to wait.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thare iz sich a thing az being alwus too quick--i am one ov that kind miself, i alwus miss a rale rode train bi being thare a haff an our too soon.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
But believe me, my dear boy, there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all.
~ Leo Tolstoy
God knows, but He's waiting
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm not living, I'm waiting for a solution that goes on and on being put off.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Pierre's madness consisted in not waiting, as he had formerly done, to discover personal attributes which he called "good qualities" in people before loving them: his heart overflowed with love, and by loving without cause he never failed to discover undeniable reasons for loving.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Pierre's insanity consisted in not waiting, as he used to do, to discover personal attributes which he termed "good qualities" in people before loving them; his heart was now overflowing with love, and by loving people without cause he discovered indubitable causes for loving them.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Noticis ir tas, ka es gaidu ciemi?us, un es nemaz negaidu ciemi?us, un nekas nav noticis, bet es l?dzu j?s aizbraukt
~ Leo Tolstoy
Like all those who live in touch with nature and have known want, he was patient and could wait for hours, even days without growing restless or irritable
~ Leo Tolstoy
Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Here the conversation seemed interesting and he stood waiting for an opportunity to express his own views, as young people are fond of doing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
In time, things fall its places for a man who know how to wait
~ Leo Tolstoy
Three days after
~ Leo Tolstoy
there is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they
~ Leo Tolstoy
A sip of wine, a cigarette, And then it's time to go. I tidied up the kitchenette; I tuned the old banjo. I'm wanted at the traffic-jam. They're saving me a seat.
~ Leonard Cohen
I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.
~ Leonard Cohen
Well, I've been waiting, I was sure we'd meet between the trains we're waiting for I think it's time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any other matter
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.
~ Leonard Cohen