Quotes About Waiting

Whatever was coming next would come.

Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.

Sometimes I liken the comedian's lifestyle a little bit to a firefighter's in the sense that there's a lot of waiting and a lot of nothingness. And then there are moments of urgent firefighting.

My vacations last one hour. Then I get bored, impatient.

How did we kill time before smartphones? I honestly can't recall. I have a vague recollection of flipping through magazines in waiting-room-type situations, but what did we do, say, in line at the post office? Waiting for a bus? Waiting for someone to meet us at a restaurant? I mean, did we just look around or something?

If you don't have a valentine, hang out with your girlfriends, don't go looking for someone. When it's right, they'll come to you.

After some minutes, I went back to the Bible. Again my eyes skimmed the pages. My spirit was calm now. My trembling had ceased. I read passage after passage until I came to Psalm 27:14. I stopped and read it through again. "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

a few hours.

So much of life is about standing on the curb, willing to see what rolls up.

So much of life is about standing on the curb, wiling to see what rolls up.

long gaps between sequels to books.

They also serve who only sit and wait

Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.

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An unknown individual accosts me outside a café: 'Surely you're not going to wait till you're dead to be loved? The implication of his remark: when are you going to do what you have to do to be loved? Implied beneath this: you are not loved. Hurry up and die: it's your last chance. But in another sense, the question suggests that I have to be love one way or another. And that is also a declaration of love.

There is a sound to waiting. It sounds like held breath pounding its fists against the walls of the lung, damp and muffled beats.

Rochelle went silent again. It was interesting, I thought. I resolved to be more like this, myself: not to speak until I was ready. Obviously, people waited for you.

cold soup waiting for him, and a bone with

Así es el tiempo, el tiempo desnudo; viene lentamente a la existencia, se hace esperar y cuando llega uno siente asco porque cae en al cuenta de que hacía mucho que estaba ahí.

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Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

That's all you're waiting for, isn't it? But no, you must have the slow death, the bloodless killing that leaves no stain on your conscience. . . .

You shut the door and you pull the curtains and then it's as long as a thousand years and yet so soon ended.

I got to the end of the story before I'd realized what she'd done. Just as Jake had waited, interviewing the Mariners, Jillian had waited out my first answers so that I would give her a better one.