quotations about waiting
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
Gospel Medicine
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Choke
Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.
TOBA BETA
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Waiting is not an emergency.
JAMIE SCOTT
B & T, February 26, 2017
Waiting is without expectation and yet because it awaits nothing, it is insatiable. For since any arrival or other form of gratification would be its end, waiting must ceaselessly betray itself by withdrawing everything that is awaited.
JOHN PAUL RICCO
The Logic of the Lure
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Housekeeping
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
ROLAND BARTHES
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
If you're hanging around waiting, don't. Waiting is an insult to you and to the life you have. Because this is your life. And you need to be living it, not sitting on some internal fence waiting for it to turn out like you expected.
ZIE KRUPKA
"Should you settle or wait for the one?", February 3, 2016