Quotes About Patience

Whenever someone comes in from outside, with the wind in their clothes and the cold on their cheeks, I feel like burying my head under the blankets to keep from thinking, "When will we be allowed to breathe fresh air again?

When will we be allowed to breathe fresh air again?

Keep your spirits up! I'm doing my best, though it's not always easy. Your time may come sooner than you think.

The war is going to go on despite our quarrels and our longing for freedom and fresh air, so we should try to make the best of our stay here.

Honestly, being in hiding during the fourth year of the war is no picnic. If only the whole stinking mess were over! To

Yes, paper does have more patience, and since I'm not planning to let anyone else read this stiff-backed notebook grandly referred to as a "diary," unless I should ever find a real friend, it probably won't make a bit of difference.

The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end.

Paper has more patience than people." I thought of this saying on one of those days when I was feeling a little depressed and was sitting at home with my chin in my hands, bored and listless, wondering whether to stay in or go out.

La carta è più paziente degli uomini.

There is a saying that, paper is more patient than man.

Paper is more patient than people.

if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.

I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable. All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end...the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

Er blijft ons niets anders over dan zo rustig als 't maar kan het einde van deze misère af te wachten. Zowel de joden als de christenen wachten, de hele aardbol wacht, en velen wachten op hun dood.

Mi-e team? de mine îns?mi, mi-e team? ca, în dorinÈ›a mea, s? nu m? d?ruiesc prea repede.

Better a day too early than a day too late

Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

For a long time now I didn't know why I was bothering to do any schoolwork. The end of the war still seemed so far away, so unreal, like a fairy tale.

All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill it.

Stundenlang könnte ich von all dem Elend erzählen, das der Krieg mit sich bringt, aber das macht mich nur noch trauriger. Es bleibt uns nichts anderes übrig, als ruhig und gefasst das Ende dieser Notzeit abzuwarten. Die Juden warten und die Christen warten. Der gesamte Erdball wartet...viele warten auf ihren Tod!

There's a saying: "Time heals all wounds.

All these preparations require explanations to various people who we feel ought to be kept in the dark. Miep went to ask if Dr. Dussel couldn't manage to come on Saturday after all, but he said no, and now he's scheduled to arrive on Monday. I think it's odd that he doesn't jump at our proposal. If they pick him up on the street, it won't help either his records or his patients, so why the delay? If you ask me, it's stupid of Father to humor him.

Believe me, if you've been shut up for a year and a half, it can get to be too much for you sometimes. But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.