Quotes About Waiting

I'd been waiting and waiting year after year to grow up so I could lead the gay life, and all the while I'd been wasting my most precious capital, my youth.

FOR THREE NIGHTS in a row, Dilly has dreamed of Gabriel, a look of yearning on his face, the clothes hanging off him, making no attempt to come to her and yet making his presence felt, standing on an empty road, like he was waiting. Three nights in a row. "It must mean that he's trying to reach you," Sister says. "It doesn't," Dilly answers

The day I brought my suicide dream he got quite conversant. The dream was thus. I had gone to Holland to avail myself of their suicide hospitality. It was a sort of garage, the light from the fluorescent tubes ghastly bright. We were told to sit for a given time. The waiting was perhaps to allow the sufferers to make peace with themselves or maybe write a last letter to kith and kin. Not once did we acknowledge one another.

Waiting for something to happen in the deathly, unhappy silence.

suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.

He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.

the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...

She said the lottery was like love. Providence was not with her, but she was patient.

Let's leave the window, and write. No need to wait for a fine blue to break through. We must live, make do.

But it was not just my grandmother there waiting for her husband to come home happy or dead. The side stories of revolution were there in Tapachula, a whole town of displaced people put on hold, taken out of time, not so different from the Nogales in which I was raised . . . . they were towns next to countries, but inside countries as well.

Inútil explicar mis silencios. En el fondo de mí hay siempre una espera primitiva de un cambio mágico.

Hay, en la espera, un rumor a lila rompiéndose

I wait until they finish up living without you at dawn without you

Mi madre lo decía: hay un reloj de esperar y otro de despedirse; el de esperar siempre atrasa.

Callar es respetar el dolor ajeno, puede ser. Pero eso no cura nada y yo ya no tengo tiempo ni ganas para esperar a que la gente se atreva a decir. Porque si algo me han enseñado los años y los colgajos es que el tiempo no perdona ni cura. Lo que cura es la verdad, y si duele, mala suerte.

Sí, vam decidir esperar i de tant fer-ho el temps se'ns en va anar de les mans.

Passa un segon com passa tota una vida quan passem la vida esperant una llum que triga.

If you wait long enough, something will happen - there has never been a time when nothing happened.

Joshua needed to eat something before embarking upon it, and hence stood in line behind an overtattooed prick who couldn't decide between banana and pumpkin bread, while the barista in a Che Guevara hat (yet presumably fluent in Middle fucking English) looked on indifferently.

Ogni tanto mi chiedo che cosa stiamo aspettando? -Che sia troppo tardi.

The women urged him to be calm, patient, and prudent. "Tomorrow," Lucia said, "Padre Cristoforo will surely come, and you'll see for yourself that he'll find the kind of solution that we common folk cannot even imagine.

numbers. "I'll be back with the phone in a few

very often our victories were squeaked out in the last few minutes, after we had drained the life from our opponents. Games – like life – are all about waiting for chances and then pouncing on them.

Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you.