Quotes About Waiting

The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways–and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.

At this moment, many people have stopped living. They do not become angry, nor cry out; they merely wait for time to pass. They did not accept the challenges of life, so life no longer challenges them

I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't know that this kiss stood for my whole life - and his life, as well. The life of anyone who has waited, dreamed, and searched for their true path. The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived.

now that she realized she had been waiting for him—she did not like that.

Give time time.

You can't spend the whole day waiting for night to come.

Everyday was another day spent waiting.  Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would  recognize her true worth.

You can't say to the spring: Come now and last as long as possible. You can only say: Come and bless me with your hope, and stay as long as you can.

It's the oasis, said the camel driver. Well, why don't we go there right now? the boy asked. Because we have to sleep.

There is nothing wrong with anxiety. Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the thing we are waiting for as quickly as possible. Or to drive away whatever is causing our fear.... Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it-just as we have learned to live with storms.

Esperar. Ésa fue la primera lección que aprendí sobre el amor. El día se arrastra, haces miles de planes, imaginas todas las conversaciones posibles, prometes cambiar tu comportamiento… y te vas poniendo ansiosa y ansiosa, hasta que llega tu amado. Entonces ya no sabes qué decir. Esas horas de espera se han transformado en tensión, la tensión en miedo, y el miedo hace que nos dé vergüenza mostrar nuestro afecto.

if pain must come, may it come quickly. because i have a life to live, and i need to live it in the best possible. if he has to make a choice, may he make it now. then i will either wait for him or forget him. waiting is painful. forgetting is painful. but not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.

Kau sedang apa? Aku sedang tidak punya kegiatan. Kalau begitu, belajarlah sesuatu. Pada saat ini, banyak orang berhenti menjalani kehidupan. Mereka tidak marah, juga tidak berseru-seru memprotes; mereka sekedar menunggu waktu berlalu. mereka tidak menerima tantangan-tantangan kehidupan, jadi kehidupan pun berhenti memberikan tantangan kepada mereka. Kau juga mengambil resiko yang sama; tunjukkan reaksi, hadapi hidup, tapi jangan berhenti hidup.

And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

Love is patience. That is how Love normally behaves: it waits calmly, unhurriedly, knowing that at some point, it will show itself. Love is ready to do its work at the right moment, but it waits calmly and meekly. Love is patient. It can bear all things. It believes all things. It hopes for all things. Because Love understands.

Beklemek insana ac? verir. Unutmak ac? verir. Ama ne karar vereceÄŸini bilememek, ac?lar?n en büyüÄŸüdür.(s.117)

That was a matter suspended between heaven and earth, awaiting the hand of destiny.

The children are waiting for us," she said. Those were her words, but what she really said was that I must live and begin now to live. Death must not interrupt life. There were others waiting for us.

Death in everyday life could also be defined as experiencing all the things that we don't want. Our marriage isn't working; our job isn't coming together. Having a relationship with death in everyday life means that we begin to be able to wait, to relax with insecurity, with panic, with embarrassment, with things not working out.

When the position is such that neither side will gain by making the first move, it is called temporising ground.

We could move catalog, if he'd only die quicker.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.