Quotes About Patience

we are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting it is as if the sun were a mind that has given up on us.

I am waiting to live, waiting to die.

there's all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.

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 in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

It's only when things are not going too badly for a while that we forget.

Nessuno trova mai la persona giusta.

Jos et keksi mitä tekisit, niin ole kiltisti. (Auringonvalo, tässä olen, s. 217)

TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS.

Czekaj?c zabi?em 4 muchy. Cholera, ?mier? czai si? wsz?dzie.

There is a space in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

We must be patient with the gods they like to have fun they like to play with us. they like to test us. they like to tell us that we are weak and stupid, that we are finished. the gods need to be amused. we are their toys.

just waiting is the worst. nothing worse than waiting just waiting. always hated to wait. what's there about waiting that's so intolerable? —like you're waiting for me to finish this poem and I don't know exactly how so I won't. —so, if you happen to read this in a magazine or a book just rip the page out tear it up and that's the graceful way to end this poem once and for all.

Maybe I should have slammed her? How did a man know what to do? 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.

but now it's the waiting on death. it's not death that's the problem, it's the waiting.

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

The writing arrives when it wants to. There is nothing you can do about it. You can't squeeze more writing out of the living than is there. Any attempt to do so creates a panic in the soul, diffuses and jars the line.

hay que sobrevivir de un modo u otro, haciendo lo que sepas, la muerte llegará, pero es mejor hacerla esperar un rato con el truco que sea.

I've watched snails climb over ten foot walls and vanish. you mustn't confuse this with ambition.

La gente debe encontrar cosas que hacer mientras espera la muerte.

People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.

no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo.

But you must have imperfect hours to get perfect hours. You must kill ten hours to make two hours live. What you must be careful of is not to kill ALL the hours, ALL the years.

There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

I've always been a slow starter.