Quotes About Waiting

Slowly it gets to be a waiting whose outward sense I cannot comprehend; the inward reason must be found daily. Both of us have lost infinitely much during the past months; time today is a costly commodity, for who knows how much more time is given to us.7 Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Maria von Wedemeyer, 20 September 1943

Christ is knocking. It's still not Christmas, but it's also still not the great last Advent, the last coming of Christ.

God is never late and rarely early. He is always exactly right on time--His time.

Reality had settled in, and they're both still waiting to recover.

Ma una decisione bisognava pur prenderla, e ciò gli dispiaceva. Egli avrebbe preferito continuare l'attesa, rimanere assolutamente immobile, quasi a provocare il destino affinché si scatenasse davvero.

Twenty-two months had passed without bringing anything fresh and he had stayed there waiting, as if life could not but be specially lenient with him.

Muhakkak farkl? birÅŸeyler olagelmeli,öyle bir ÅŸey ki insan:Art?k sonuna gelmiÅŸ olsam bile beklemeye deÄŸmiÅŸ diyebilmeli.

They go far back in our lost distance where what we never had stands waiting; it was inevitable that we should come upon them, for our miscalculated longing has created them.

In my path, through my constant search, my horse has taught me the limitless progression of life. Every time in my learning that I felt a breakthrough, I opened the doors and I found my horse saying, "It's about time. I've been waiting for you." A few weeks later another breakthrough. I opened the doors and there was my horse again. So far I have never found any limits but my own.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

As I ponder this, I don't believe my greeting committee said, "Oh no, he doesn't get to stay." They're still there at the gate. They're waiting. For them, time is not passing. Everything is in the eternal now—even if I can't put that into words. Even if ten more years pass, or thirty, in heaven it will be only an instant before I'm back there again.

And the tuberculosis old men At the Nelson wheeze and cough And someone will head south Until this whole thing cools off … —Tom Waits, "Small Change

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come and whip him down the street, gently home

All my life I've been waiting to understand. Look what God has done for me!

Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.

You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician.

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.