Waiting Quotes

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. (Terry Pratchett)
You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. View quote
A. A. Milne
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. View quote
Woody Allen
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers. View quote
Tom Stoppard
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. View quote
Joseph Campbell
If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room. View quote
Jules Renard
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. View quote
Barack Obama
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. View quote
Carrie Fisher
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. View quote
Paulo Coelho
A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be. (Steven Brust)
America is not a young land it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. View quote
William S. Burroughs
A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. View quote
George Harrison
There is no sign of leaf or bud, A hush is over everything - Silent as women wait for love, The world is waiting for the spring. View quote
Sara Teasdale
The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. View quote
Elizabeth Taylor
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. View quote
Richard Brautigan
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. View quote
Morris West
What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It's awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up. View quote
Ivo Andrić
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? (Stephen Levine)
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. View quote
Ayn Rand
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. View quote
George Carlin
📖 Waiting Proverbs