Quotes About Patience

In time, all storms settle to a pleasant breeze. —The Thunderhead

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too.

One crisis at a time!

It was hard to have feelings about something she was years away from even considering.

Minutes, foolish mortal, are the base mineral that you must not let go of without extracting their gold!

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Take it easy, Sadness. Settle down.

L'art est long, et le temps est court.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

No Help of that There is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space. And even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it We will know it more that ever. There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that place.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

Somebody at one of these places asked me: What do you do? How do you write, create? You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to rest the godhead now and then.

I don't like love as a command, as a search. It must come to you, like a hungry cat at the door.

She could talk. If she was a sphinx she could have talked, if she was a stone she could have talked. I wondered when she'd get tired and leave. Even after I stopped listening it was like being battered with tiny pingpong balls.

for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.