WAITING QUOTES

quotations about waiting

Waiting quote

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

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The fact that we wait for something is evidence that in some way we already possess it.

HERBERT ANDERSON

Living Alone


The habit of waiting is so deeply entrenched in our culture that many of us feel uncomfortable if we are not waiting for something. We feel vaguely lost. The present will always be insufficient if we are insufficiently present.

PHILIP SHEPHERD

New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century


We're like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.

LUIGI PIRANDELLO

Henry IV

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The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.

NUALA O'FAOLAIN

My Dream of You


There are two kinds of people in one's life: people whom one keeps waiting, and people for whom one waits.

S. N. BEHRMAN

Biography: A Comedy in Three Acts


Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, September 15, 1946

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As long as I'm living
I'll be waiting
As long as I'm breathing
I'll be there
Whenever you call me
I'll be waiting
Whenever you need me
I'll be there

LENNY KRAVITZ

"I'll Be Waiting"


Waiting [is] the great vocation of the dispossessed.

MARY GORDON

New York Times, November 3, 1985

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I had tended to view waiting as mere passivity. When I looked it up in my dictionary however, I found that the words passive and passion come from the same Latin root, pati, which means "to endure." Waiting is thus both passive and passionate. It's a vibrant, contemplative work. It means descending into self, into God, into the deeper labyrinths of prayer. It involves listening to disinherited voices within, facing the wounded holes in the soul, the denied and undiscovered, the places one lives falsely. It means struggling with the vision of who we really are in God and molding the courage to live that vision.

SUE MONK KIDD

When the Heart Waits

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Waiting is our active response to the intrinsically ethical sociality of being.

JOSHUA B. DAVIS

Waiting and Being: Creation, Freedom, and Grace in Western Theology


Now we play the waiting game. [long pause] Ah, the waiting game sucks. Let's play Hungry Hungry Hippos!

HOMER SIMPSON

"Mr. Plow", The Simpsons

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Waiting is normal. Expect it.

PAVEL SOMOV

Present Perfect


Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Brisingr

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Waiting is such a pervasive phenomenon in social life that it can be seen, and indeed has been seen, as almost synonymous to social being. Pascal sees the very small moments in which we are waiting "for this or that" as an indication that our life is worth living. Waiting indicates that we are engaged in, and have expectations from, life; that we are on the lookout for what life is going to throw our way.

GHASSAN HAGE

Waiting


We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

DEAN KOONTZ

Your Heart Belongs to Me

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You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless.

R. S. THOMAS

The Echoes Return Slow


When our waiting is intentional, when it signifies surrender to a better plan, a better timeline, a higher calling, then we are waiting with purpose.

MARK & JILL HERRINGSHAW

"When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Wait", beliefnet, April 11, 2017


Waiting is a means of acquiring patience.

ADRIAN THATCHER

God, Sex, and Gender: An Introduction


I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realised the person I was waiting for was myself.

MARKUS ZUSAK

Underdog

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