Quotes About Waiting

As long as you're living in the meantime, you'll never really know what you're missing. And by doing so, your life is just a rehearsal for a performance that never comes.

In the end he sleeps because waiting is a dull, sick ache, like a tinnitus of the soul.

Y al final se queda dormido porque la espera es un dolor sordo y continuo, como un acúfeno del alma.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

Rain wasn't quite falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

The rain had not started falling yet, but it had scheduled an appointment.

rather than hanging around like a fart under a duvet.

Based on our findings, we feel that Mr. Pierce would no longer pose an unreasonable risk to society, and we do find him suitable for parole." I shook Keith Watley's hand, but I wasn't about to celebrate. He'd already explained to me that there's another 120-day waiting period.

Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.

Yo anhelaba enseñar, pero tuve que esperar a que el deseo se desvaneciera antes de que pudiese hacerlo realmente.

La Paciencia es una prenda que jamás se ha desgastado.

La paciencia es amarga, pero produce un dulce fruto.

my childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.

single car waited helplessly at a dormant traffic light;

Si stava rimettendo in piedi tra un'imprecazione e l'altra quando vide un paio di scarpe nere avvicinarsi strascicando. «Ti aspettavo ore fa.». Perché doveva essere sempre presente Max ogni volta che la grazia sembrava abbandonarla?

She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.

And if no one asked for her hand, how then could Carr give it?

El día de mañana nos espera detrás de esa puerta. Está ahí agazapado, un oceano de palabras e incertidumbres. Pero todavía no ha llegado hasta aquí y nosotros sí.

night is here but the barbarians have not come. And some people arrived from the borders, and said that there are no longer any barbarians. And now what shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were some kind of solution.

la pregunta no formulada seguía siendo: ¿cuánto tiempo más debían resistir? En aquellos momentos, en las primeras horas del domingo 24 de septiembre, después de ocho días de batalla, se calculaban las fuerzas de Urquhart en menos de 2.500 hombres. Y para todos ellos solamente había una pregunta: ¿cuándo llegarán las fuerzas de Monty?

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over. ("New York Blues")

I glance at the line. It's moving as fast as a sloth on Benadryl.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

I just let him bungle through the words out loud. I wondered silently in my head whether that still counted as a real incantation or not. Or whether it was something else, something internal and having to do with the intentions of the heart that mattered, and if so, if that was the real hinge that would swing the door open to whatever was waiting on the other side. He