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Quotes About Waiting

Death will be too late to bring us aid.
~ William Carlos Williams
The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
We were too greedy, grasping for immortality too soon. Perhaps if we had only been patient, content to wait, we would all have forever in the end.
~ Jessica Khoury, Origin
Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Life's a queue of small irritations with the Last Door at the end.
~ Unknown
How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?
~ Unknown
He may take long walksin the raining darkalmost aimlesslyto a spot of soaked grassin a neighbor's open field.He's decided this is the placefor you and him to meet again.
~ Kristen Henderson
Sometimes Death lurks after them for days, weeks, or even months, waiting for their time... Sometimes it doesn't, and I've often raced that omnipresent Reaper to one portion of its work.
~ N.B. Roberts, Halton Cray
waiting for the time to be free ...i ask every die forgeting sometimes soon i will be free for ever ... dont hurry the death.
~ Unknown
It's only amatter of time, and God's timming never second best
~ Unknown
We are apart so that I will know the joy of being with you again. Take care of yourself, wherever you are. Take care of yourself, wherever you are.
~ Unknown
Oh death you can wait keep your distance.
~ André Chénier
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.
~ Lucy Larcom
Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.
~ Deepak Chopra
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
~ Publilius Syrus
On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.
~ Robert Breault
Heaven is the place where the donkey finally catches up with his carrot: hell is the eternity while he waits for it.
~ Russell Green
Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.
~ Aeschylus
Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
~ Ani DiFranco
He who awaits much can expect little.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's funny: I've always wanted to grow my hair out ,and I always seem to get a movie right before it's sort of the right length or right after, and it's never timed right.
~ Lucas Till
When might I expect you then? Whenever is least convenient for you, the demon replied.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth. ... Can waiting by definition slow, flash by? ... Time becomes even more elastic than usual--minutes can stretch for ages and days suddenly snap together. [p. 97]
~ Diane Ackerman