Quotes About Waiting

For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life.

You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

It seemed, however, that I had. I didn't want any more, so I got them. And now I am glad, for if, as I had sometimes wished at that time, I could have finished with a consciousness become unbearable, if, in other words, I had then died, I would never have known a great many very beautiful and delightful things. Evidently, then, it is wise not too soon to lose patience with life, but to wait and see what it may have round its next corner. I

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

I think truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light." "And there is nothing we can do to hasten it," said Pernel, and heaved a resigned sigh. "At present, nothing but wait." "And pray, perhaps?" she said.

Si longue que soit la vie, elle n'est qu'un long retard de la mort

and wait for daylight.

But the dawn did come—at last.

Come into the garden, Maud,For the black bat, night, has flown,Come into the garden, Maud,I am here at the gate alone.

Love is in the greenwood, dawn is in the skies, And Marian is waiting with a glory in her eyes.

She saw herself, a fading figure, more than half-way now towards the sunset end, within sight even of the shadowed emptiness that lay beyond the sun's dipping edge. She had lingered over-long, expecting a dream to confirm a dream; she had been oblivious of the truth that the lane went rushing just the same. It was now too late. The speed increased. She had waited, waited for nothing. The seller of dreams was a myth.

I forgot the shaking of the willows in the windless calm, the humming overhead, everything except that I was waiting for an answer that I dreaded more than I can possibly explain.

At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

One who cannot benefit by patience will die in grief.

Livslånga vänskaper, sa han. Ibland får vi vänta en livstid på dem.

they were always, she was always, gloriously, just a little late, it made everything worth hurrying for)

Los amigos de toda la vida, dijo él. A veces nos pasamos toda la vida esperándolos.

Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about. Then the seedheads rattle, the seeds fall out. Then there's even more language waiting to come up.

till we meet again, my heart awaits you. till we meet again, you will trouble my dreams

Dear friend, come home. I have tragic news," he said. She looked straight at him without a spasm of fear, Her face not stern or masked-- "Is it Percy or John?" she asked. "Percy." She dropped her eyes. "I am needed here. Surely you know I cannot go Until every letter is written. The dead Must wait on the living," she said. "This is my work. I must stay.

All my life Since I was 10 I've been waiting to be in this hell here with you All I've ever wanted And still do

All my life, since I was ten, I've been waiting to be in this hell here with you; all I've ever wanted, and still do.

Didn't want anyone to find me, not yet.