Waiting Quotes

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He's taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

When I dream, I dream of him. For several nights now he’s come to me, waving from a distant shore as if he’s been waiting patiently for me to arrive. He doesn’t utter a word, but his smile says everything: I’ve missed you.

Am I in love? —yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Realise this: one day your soul will depart from your body and you will be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy, because you don't know where you came from and you don't know where you will be going.

To those who will see, the world waits.

Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

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

Oh, yesterdays are over my shoulder, So I can't look back for too long. There's just too much to see waiting in front of me, and I know that I just can't go wrong.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.

Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.

This conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young - young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers.

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.

The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you.

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits near them, waiting.

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

Someday I will have nothing left to lose. I can't wait.

We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.

On an important decision one rarely has 100% of the information needed for a good decision no matter how much one spends or how long one waits. And, if one waits too long, he has a different problem and has to start all over. This is the terrible dilemma of the hesitant decision maker.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible to such an extent.

We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

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

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.

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

Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.

The root of all virtue and grace, of all faith and acceptable worship, is that we know that we have nothing but what we receive, and bow in deepest humility to wait upon God for it.

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. Van Gogh, Beethoven, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, Pink Floyd (the early Piper at the Gates of Dawn line up), scientific breakthroughs, spiritual revolution, utopian visions, zany nationalism that kills millions- wait, that's the bad kind. Tim Dorsey (Hurricane Punch)

That's how we often react when grace comes at us. It's awkward. God offers us something that's too good to be true"ﾂ盃nearned, unmerited, total forgiveness"ﾂ蚤nd we stand there, stiff and uncomfortable, waiting for the embrace to stop so we can get back to the business of earning our way into heaven. We need to embrace grace. We need to learn how to hug back.

A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am once again what I was before the age of twelve: a female human being who knows that a month has thirty day, not twenty-five, and who can spend every one of them free of the shackles of that defect of body and mind known as femininity.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.

I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'

we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.

I can't wait until tomorrow 'cause I get better looking every day.

There’s a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired..

Problems should be solved on the spot, as soon as they arise. No front-line employee should have to wait for a supervisor's permission

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out let it spread through Sift down even. Watch it sprout. A mind like compost.

Opportunities are made, they do not just lie around waiting for someone to grab them.

Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.

No matter where you are right now, no matter far along you are on your own path, don't wait to "have it all" to celebrate. You're never going to figure it all out. Make being happy your business, all along the way. Life can't be one long, tough haul, with a little party at the end. What good is that? Life should be punctuated with celebrations and you have to build them into your time because being happy isn't easy.

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it.

Life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.

Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the studio to call.

Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can.

Those that study particular sciences, and neglect philosophy, are like Penelope's wooers, that make love to the waiting women.

I'm just waiting for people to start asking me to make the rain disappear.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something!

There are times, they occur with increasing frequency nowadays, when I seem to know nothing, when everything I know seems to have fallen out of my mind like a shower of rain, and I am gripped for a moment in paralysed dismay, waiting for it all to come back but with no certainty that it will.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.

I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

I’m waiting for the day when Rush Limbaugh’s pharmacist writes a book.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.