Waiting Quotes and Sayings

“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” – A. A. Milne

“Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.” – Austin O’Malley

“He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.” – Jean De La Bruyere

“Waiting is a means of acquiring patience.” – Adrian Thatcher

“Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.” – Cesare Pavese

“Waiting is the rust of the soul.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“We’re like so many puppets hung on the wall, waiting for someone to come and move us or make us talk.” – Luigi Pirandello

“I didn’t know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.” – Richard Brautigan

“Buying a particular vintage because everyone tips it and then waiting for it to mature is like gambling. The thrill is in placing the bet. Once the race is run or the match is played, you’ll either win or lose. Until that happens, you’re caught in this wonderful, agonising sense of expectation.” – Kenneth Cranham

“I’ve been waiting for Prince Charming like every other little girl.” – Shelly Burch

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – E. M. Forster

“It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.” – Elizabeth Taylor