250 Best Quotes About Waiting For Love (2023)

1. “Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.” — John Ortberg

2. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. - Orison Swett Marden

3. “When one pine and yearned for love, then it’s good to pray to our lord above. Both God and love are needed that one may be bound, as we try to make the mind very sound.” ―Hubert Winston Anderson

4. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.” – William James

5. I can’t still wrap my head around the fact that you left. Some may call it a mere dream, I don’t care. All I know is that you will come back to me. I can’t wait to have you back.

6. “Mr Tickle grinned a mischievous grin. He waited another minute, and then tickled the teacher again. This time he kept on tickling until soon the teacher was laughing out loud and saying, ‘Stop it! Stop it!’ over and over again. “

7. “But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!” – Anna Neagle

8. Be Prepared: Finally, as you keep a positive attitude, prepare yourself to meet that right person, and do everything you know you can do to ensure that when you finally meet, it will be an exciting experience together, and the waiting will be worth it. Use every situation to your advantage.

9. Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles, and in the right way. - Fulton J. Sheen

10. “The Potkoorok stirred. Its golden eyes gleamed. It slid like a ripple through the water, watching the boy. It waited while he explored the edges, examining brilliant green moss with air-bubbles trapped in it. It waited while he scooped up tiny slate-blue tadpoles and examined them and let them go. It waited till he stepped into deeper water; then it curled a coldness round his ankle, slithering like an eel.”

11. “And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he would be the last one ever and he would walk away now and it would only be a question of waiting for it all to end and hoping for better things in the next world. But that was silly, it was never too late.” – Brian Moore

12. If pain must come, may it come quickly? Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now? Then I will either wait for him or forget him. - Paulo Coelho

13. “How many more days will you wait for that clink. That you’ll cross her mind and she’ll finally see? People don’t think of people as much as we think, but we think of people, so which people are we?”―Karl Kristian Flores

14. “One of the hardest things to do is wait, but I know if I keep waiting, then my waiting will become one of my greatest passions, and that is the key to being happy.”

15. “believe that this way of living, this focus on the present, the daily, the tangible, this intense concentration not on the news headlines but on the flowers growing in your own garden, the children growing in your own home, this way of living has the potential to open up the heavens, to yield a glittering handful of diamonds where a second ago there was coal. This way of living and noticing and building and crafting can crack through the movie sets and soundtracks that keep us waiting for our own life stories to begin, and set us free to observe the lives we have been creating all along without ever realizing it.

16. “It was nothing like what I’d dreamed of when I was a little girl—what I had hoped for myself growing up. But it was the only life I had, and it was mine. The days of waiting around for someone else to ride in and save the day for me were over.”

17. “Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection.”

18. “Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.” ―Dr. Robert Anthony Kreucher

19. For the pains, for the tears, for the stresses, for the headaches, you deserve that precious person who will wipe your tears and give you the best treatment you deserve.

20. “She wasn't looking for a man that nobly beat his chest and proclaimed, "I would die for you!", in fact, she wasn't looking for anyone. She was content in waiting for a man that said, "l will live for you", then proved it. One is a once in a lifetime event. The other is a lifetime event” ― Lee Goff, A Name Like Thunder

21. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting; take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” – Chris Jami

22. “For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.”

23. “Tell me to wait in love, and I swear I will wait for the one and only who dwells in my heart. Maybe my confidence to wait in love makes her mine forever.” ― Anonymous

24. “The fox was stunned. He stared at Doctor De Soto, then at his wife. They smiled and waited. All he could do was say, ‘Frank oo berry mush’ through his clenched teeth, and get up and leave. He tried to do so with dignity.”

25. “I should have waited for a couple of more days and surprised you with Valentine’s gift. But I can’t wait too long to celebrate Valentine’s every day.” – Unknown

26. “I think fear had made us all a little cantankerous. I had spent the night in the waiting room. Gramps offered to get me a motel room, but I was afraid that if I left the hospital, I would never see Gram again.”

27. “Yearn for true love the go try for it / While you are strong and feeling fit / And for sure we need God and love at all times / With God and love, our lives will always be fine.” – Hubert Winston Anderson

28. “I am waiting for someone who will understand my loneliness. Someone who can hold me in his arms. Someone who will love me just like I love him. But I wait so long, and I’m not sure if he’ll ever come.”

29. “Peace! I’ll wait. I’ll wait till he’s all right and going about; I won’t start till then. But- peace! It’s not peace, it’s an armistice- that’s all.”

30. “I have died every day waiting for you. Darling don’t be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you a thousand more.” – Christina Perri

31. “I think it is absolutely vital when you are married with children to have at least one trip away a year without the kids. No matter how much we love them, it’s really important to remember we are part of a couple too, otherwise the kids completely take over.” – Jason Ayres

32. “Stop waiting for Friday, for summer, for someone to fall in love with you, for life. Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for it and make the most of the moment you are in now.”

33. “Ramona stood with both heels on the curb, but her toes out over the gutter. Henry could not say she was not standing on the curb, so he merely glared. ”

34. “Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds are less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me. “ – Gabrielle Zevin

35. I know that no matter the wait, I will be happy at last. No matter how long, you will come for me, and no matter how hard it looks, I will be your Queen.

36. “I’m not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you- better than anyone else in the world.” – Haruki Murakami

37. “I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”

38. “Love means never having to say you’re sorry for being unsure of how someone feels about you. It also means waiting patiently for the other person to catch up to you emotionally before you start acting on your feelings.”

39. “You can’t force someone to care, you can only sit and wait till everything catches up to them and when it finally does maybe then they’ll realize what they lost.” ―Nishan Panwar

40. I waited and waited. For minutes, for hours, for days.. But all I had was silence. And with the absence of your words, I took it as an answer. - Anonymous

41. “Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.” ―Dr. Robert AnthonyKreucher

42. “Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.”

43. “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

44. “What matter if I stand alone? / I wait with joy the coming years; / My heart shall reap where it hath sown, / And garner up its fruit of tears.” — John Burroughs

45. “Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I’ve been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.” ― Camryn Manheim

46. I will keep waiting, I will never get tired of waiting. You are my treasure, and without your love life is meaningless. Please come back to me quickly, my Love.

47. “If you can't ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

48. “Most of us are waiting. We’re waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we’re going to wait forever if we don’t do something more interesting with our lives.” – Donald Miller

49. You are so special and I desire to wait as long as it will take me. I’m getting tired of waiting but I hope I receive the strength to keep hanging on.

50. “She knew Al didn’t didn’t want to have more kids, they have no relationship, it’s a mess,” a source added. “Lawyers have been working on this for months.”

51. “Corduroy is a bear who once lived in the toy departments of a big store. Day after day he waited with all the other animals and dolls for somebody to come along and take him home.”

52. My darling boyfriend, I know you are somewhere on this planet, looking for me too. I wish the wave of my heartbeat can get to you and lead you to me. Don’t worry, Honey, I’ll be here waiting for you.

53. “The day you start realizing that waiting for love is the best decision. From that day, you start developing the patience to achieve objectives in life.” ―Unknown

54. “Do not wait. The time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

55. “The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you’re out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.” – A.J. Darkholme

56. There is someone waiting for you, someone who is ready to treat you right and make you smile, someone who is ready to give you all the pampering you deserve in life. There is someone here, ready to receive you into his arms.

57. “Yearning for love is like yearning for food. Something to make the body feels real good, for love is like food, we all really need. So yearning for it, is wonderful indeed.” – Hubert Winston Anderson

58. “Tell me to wait in love, and I swear I will wait for the one and only who dwells in my heart. Maybe my confidence to wait in love makes her mine forever.” ―Unknown

59. “The Ring had a will of its own, and a way of slipping from one hand to be found by another, so that it might at last get back to its master. And there, the ring lay at the bottom of the great river Anduin for thousands of years.”

60. “Why are we here, that is the question? And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come...We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment.”

61. “Feeling unsteady and needing something. So right in your ears, maybe, bells are ringing. In words of love sounds so sweet which give the heart many extra beat.” ―Hubert Winston Anderson

62. “The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you’re out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form. ” – A.J. Darkholme

63. “Because love is life and life is love. There’s no life without love and there’s no love without life, and waiting is the bridge between the two.” – Unknown

64. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus

65. “I have been marking every day on the calendar to keep a check for how long I can wait for your return. Do you wish to see the calendar I am marking?” ―Unknown

66. Get Busy with Other Things: Sometimes, idleness can get you unnecessarily weary, when you are waiting for someone you love, get involved in some other interesting thing to help you pass time and take your attention.

67. “I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

68. “Nate had been spying on the candy shop for almost thirty minutes. His hour had to be waning. If he was going to risk a direct assault on the shop, he knew it was now or never.”

69. “If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.” ― Maurice Chevalier

70. I tried all I could to keep holding on to your promise, but the longer I wait the harder it looks to come true. I got tired of waiting, I’m sorry, I have to move on.

71. “You have to constantly be doing something and not just wait for someone to call you with an opportunity, you have to develop your own projects.” — Kate del Castillo

72. “Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men.”

73. “During the whole underside of her life, ever since her first memory, Eleanor had been waiting for something like Hill House. Caring for her mother, lifting a cross old lady from her chair to her bed, setting out endless little trays of soup and oatmeal, steeling herself to the filthy laundry, Eleanor had held fast to the belief that someday something would happen.”

74. “Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” – Mark Twain

75. “Yearning for love is like yearning for food. Something to make the body feels real good, for love is like food, we all really need. So yearning for it is wonderful indeed.” – Hubert Winston Anderson

76. I guess it's half timing and the other half’s luck. Wherever you are, whenever it’s right. You’ll come out of nowhere and into my life.”―Micheal Bubble

77. “I saw the moon when we where out there on the ocean. Shining down on everything. I've been miserable for so long. Years of my life wasted. For you. Been a long time comin' here to met you. A long time, on a crooked road.”

78. ““Ladies, don't get the misconception of the story of Ruth and Boaz and think a man is going to come and save you. Remember, Ruth went out to take care of herself and her mother and law and gathered grain from the fields. God brought Boaz to come assist her in her life, not save her. Its a difference. No man can save you, only God can.” - Chloe M. Gooden

79. “I should have waited for a couple of more days and surprised you with Valentine’s gift. But I can’t wait too long to celebrate Valentine’s every day.” ―Unknown

80. “When you’re waiting, there’s no need to worry because time never changes what was once true. Even if you don’t see your true love right now, that doesn’t mean they are not out there for you.”

81. “When people get hooked on the new age life they end up sitting at home burning candles for Mister Right, when Mister Good-Enough-For-Right-Now is waiting at the corner bar!”

82. I wish you the best in life, and I hope you find happiness in your next phase of life. I hope you find the right person in life who will give you what you really want.

83. “Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: ‘I’m waiting to win the lottery. I’m waiting to fall in love’. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.” – Ian Mckellen

84. “Never rush in love for it never runs out. Let love be the one to knock on your door so that by the time you start to feel, you’ll know it’s real.” – Anonymous

85. Being with the right person brings out the best in you, you live more, laugh more, and find it easy to walk through life without the fear of being judged.

86. Seek Help: While waiting, you’ll need some support. Seek support from close friends and family members to encourage and motivate you through the waiting period.

87. I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heartbreak entirely, but either way, this constant hungry waiting would be over. - Ally Condie

88. “If husbands spent their time and attention on demonstrating love to their wives, and wives focused their energy on showing respect for their husbands, imagine how different the world would be today.” – Greg Laurie

89. “The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.” — Charles Spurgeon

90. Sometimes, waiting might look like a waste of time, but truly, in the end, we’ll be glad we did because, in the end, it’s all so that we get the best gift.

91. “When that day comes, we’ll be waiting. Waiting for Charlie St. Cloud to come home to us. Until then we offer these parting words... May he live in peace.”

92. Waiting for someone is just a test of how deep and genuine your love is for them. I got tired of waiting and wondering if you will still be interested but love kept me hanging on.

93. “When that day comes, we’ll be waiting. Waiting for Charlie St. Cloud to come home to us. Until then we offer these parting words… May he live in peace.” – Ben Sherwood

94. “You don’t have to chase around after creatures, Pismire had said. You watch them for long enough, and then you’ll find the place to wait and they’ll come to you. There’s nearly always a better way of doing something.”

95. I can’t believe I have to let you go, I don’t know how to cope without you. I wish I could meet your standard and make you happy. I wish you happiness in your new relationship.

96. “When you wait for someone for few minutes, it’s you need. For few hours, it’s your trust. For few weeks, it’s your friendship. But to wait when you know the person will not come, it’s your love.”

97. “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.” ―Sarah Ban Breathnach

98. “Is that why you've been pushing me away? Because of how you look? [...] I waited for you my whole life. Yearned for you my whole life. After Tersa told me you were coming, I spent seven hundred years searching for you[....] I never gave a damn what you looked like--tall, short, fat, thin, plain, beautiful, ugly. Why would I care about what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory[....] Even if I couldn't be your physical lover, there are other ways to be a lover and I know them all. So don't stand there and tell me how you feel depends on how you look!”

99. “It is telling about a young boy. It tells you about his first love and his first heart breaking. One day he was late for school. He enters the bus in hurry and in about some stops later a girl enters the bus. She has red hair and a unique perfume. And it’s the most beautiful thing the boy ever saw.”

100. Oftentimes, the agitation and restlessness we cause for ourselves are not worth it, the best thing is just to wait patiently for the right person, and we’ll be fine.

101. “She crept back into the silent house, past the closed bedroom door inside which the other mother and the other father […] what? she wondered. Slept? Waited?” – Neil Gaiman

102. “Jon warned me that sometimes this took great patience—even years.’But in the end,’ he said, ‘people will show you their good side. Almost everybody has a good side. Just keep waiting. It will come out.” – Randy Pausch

103. “When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.”

104. “I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last.” – Peter S. Beagle

105. “Infuse your life with action. Don’t wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen… yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.” – Bradley Whitford

106. “When you’re feeling overwhelmed or your body is giving you signs that you’re overdoing it,: stop,breathe, and remember one thing: everything can wait. Fall in love with you. Love, support, validate, and nourish a relationship with yourself.”

107. Maybe those broken pieces I keep denying are attracting the wrong souls. Who linger way too long trying to take away whatever light I have left and I let them. - Samantha King

108. “It comes and goes in waves” can be said of the love that enters your life and forever changes you. There is much merit in learning how to wait for love as neither the feeling of love nor the beloved can constantly be present. Waiting can be challenging and wonderful since you are constantly craving your companion. The waiting for love quotes mentioned above can give you company and help you realize the sweet ache of distance and momentary separation. What makes life so beautiful is that you treasure it, even more when you eventually find love. Instead of begrudging times spent away from each, try to embrace the yearning with an open heart and complete devotion.

109. Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts. - Elizabeth Elliot

110. “I have spent probably years of time waiting in studio lounges – waiting on a mix, waiting on my time to sing, waiting on, waiting on, waiting on. That’s just the nature of life.” ― Amy Grant

111. “It is turning into loneliness even in the crowds of loved ones in a joyous party for one, when he is busy waiting for someone, hardly listening to anyone.”

112. “Do not wait. The time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” – Napoleon Hill

113. Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking. - Gary Paulsen

114. “It wasn't my intention to love you that much. I did everything to show how much I care for you. But I guess, you didn't love me as much as I did. Even how hard I tried to hold you but you let me go. Urgh! That was painful. I still wait for you even it takes years.”

115. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J. B. Priestley

116. “Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”

117. “There is a reason why wise men say that you need to wait instead of meeting the wrong person; you always find the hidden feelings emerge after some time.” – Unknown

118. You can't force someone to care, you can only sit and wait till everything catches up to them and when it finally does maybe then they'll realize what they lost. - Nishan Panwar

119. I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling don't be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you a thousand more. - Christina Perri

120. “You can’t force someone to care, you can only sit and wait till everything catches up to them and when it finally does maybe then they’ll realize what they lost.” – Nishan Panwar

121. If you are waiting, let it be for someone who’s worth the wait. Once that is settled, then keep waiting until they show up, there’s nothing more exciting.

122. I will keep waiting till that day when I will finally hold you in my arms and get another chance to whisper into your ears how deeply in love with you I am.

123. “Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So, I give you my life, hoping that you will come back to me.” – Rumi

124. Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting... We have not got half-way to dawn yet. - Henry David Thoreau

125. She'll be impatient because she's tired of waiting. She'll seem selfish because she's tired of not being chosen but there's love in her heart. You'll just need to work for it because she's worth it. - R.H. Sin

126. “I might have to wait; I’ll never give up. I guess its half timing and the other half’s luck. Wherever you are, whenever it’s right. You’ll come out of nowhere and into my life”―Micheal Bubble

127. I hope you find the right person, that wonderful person who will treat you right and wipe your tears. Who will give you all the best things you deserve in life?

128. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”―Criss Jami

129. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself — to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.” – Leo F. Buscaglia

130. “Every time I think about you, I’m filled with happiness and joy I never knew before, and it’s the same way now. Sometimes I think that happiness must be a woman, and I would want to find her again and keep her forever.”

131. “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you´re not by my side.” – Paulo Coelho

132. Wherever you are, whatever you’re going through, always bear in mind, that there is someone waiting for you here, who will be ready to receive you with love.

133. “I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don’t be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you for a thousand more.” – Christina Perri

134. “Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.”

135. “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.” — Paulo Coelho

136. “If you can’t ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

137. Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways - and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. - Paulo Coelho

138. I’ve pictured my future with you, though I haven’t met you. I know we will make a good couple and have a beautiful home together. I’m so waiting for you, my Husband!

139. “I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling, don’t be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you a thousand more.” – Christina Perri

140. “I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you.”

141. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”- Criss Jami

142. Waiting for the right person doesn’t mean we are not smart, it just means we are smart enough to avoid giving ourselves to those who would not cherish our love.

143. The thought of you warms my heart. I find it hard to express how deeply I am in love with you. It seems I am the only one that understands this. I don’t mind being called abnormal, so far I will be called yours someday.

144. “Tell me to wait in love, and I swear I will wait for the one and only who dwells in my heart. Maybe my confidence to wait in love makes her mine forever.” – Unknown

145. “It’s good if we wait for some moment before we exchange our hearts. I have plans to indulge in romance before we become each other’s forever.” ―Unknown

146. “Cilla, waiting and waiting for him at North Square—and then he got there only about when it pleased him. He loved Cilla. She and Rab were the best friends he had ever had. Why was he mean to her? He couldn’t think.”

147. You told me to wait, and I did. Sadly, it seems the waiting will be forever, this doesn’t look like what I wanted for myself. I think I have to move on, Dear.

148. “I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately and protected so fiercely.” – Beth Pearson

149. I am here waiting for you, my King, I will keep waiting until you find me. I have vowed to keep myself for you and present myself as a gift you’ll cherish.

150. “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.” – Robert H. Schuller

151. “Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sitting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.”

152. “I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else, waiting to be that person I always thought I was on the verge of becoming, waiting for that life I thought I would have. In my head, I was always one step away. In high school, I was biding my time until I could become the college version of myself, the one my mind could see so clearly. In college, the post-college “adult” person was always looming in front of me, smarter, stronger, more organized. Then the married person, then the person I’d become when we have kids. For twenty years, literally, I have waited to become the thin version of myself, because that’s when life will really begin.

153. “How do I say goodbye to someone I never really had? Why do my tears fall so endlessly for someone who was never really mine? Why is it I miss someone I was never really with? And why do I love someone whose love was never really mine?”

154. “Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.” – Marianne Williamson

155. “It wasn’t my intention to love you that much. I did everything to show how much I care for you. But I guess you didn’t love me as much as I did. Even how hard I tried to hold you but you let me go. Urgh! That was painful. I still wait for you even [if] it takes years.” – Aser Alas Jr.

156. “I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you a thousand more.” – Christina Perri

157. “Relationships of all kinds are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.” – Kaleel Jamison

158. “I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling don’t be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you a thousand more.” ―Christina Perri

159. “Nate had been spying on the candy shop for almost thirty minutes. His hour had to be waning. If he was going to risk a direct assault on the shop, he knew it was now or never.” – Brandon Mull

160. Be Determined: Waiting is not easy, it takes a lot of determination on your part. Be determined in your heart to be patient and wait for that special person you love.

161. “So they waited, and grumbled, and watched the macaroni cheese congeal between them on the table. But MCC Berkshire never came for his supper. Not that night or any night.”

162. “In nostalgia there’s no difference between a day, a year, a decade, or a lifetime because the amount of longing is beyond the idea of time.” – Khalil Gibran

163. Keep the faith. The vision is always for the appointed time. Be patient, prayerful, and wait for the fulfillment of your visions. - Lailah Gifty Akita

164. “There had been nothing worse than waiting for it to come; the void that followed was easier to bear than the solid weight of those days.” – Jhumpa Lahiri

165. “For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” – Audrey Hepburn

166. “As the time goes by, and I wait for you to realize what you have lost, the harder it will be to find out. Until then, please do not forget to pray for me. I’m waiting for you to return to me.”

167. 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. - Barack Obama

168. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for. - Oscar Wilde

169. “I want to do things – scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I’m an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.” – Teri Polo

170. We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Joseph Campbell

171. Here I am waiting for you, my Love. I hope you realize how dear you are to me and how badly I miss you. I long to have you back, my Darling. Please come back to me.

172. “If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)”

173. “I shall not lose hope that we will meet again. Even the astronomers believe those destined to collide, whether they be stars or people, might cross paths and go their separate ways but eventually doth find themselves brought together once more. And so, I hope.”

174. “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.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

175. “My head and my heart will never cease their endless war. When my head says ‘I don’t care, my heart says ‘I do care’. When my head says ‘I’m not thinking about her, my heart says ‘of course you do.’” – Unknown

176. “Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.” – Joseph Addison

177. You deserve a love that won’t keep you up worrying. You deserve a love that feels like home. A love that is certain. A love that makes sense. - Ari Eastman

178. “I have been marking every day on the calendar to keep a check for how long I can wait for your return. Do you wish to see the calendar I am marking.” – Unknown

179. “You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.” – Gary Ryan Blair

180. “Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks, I will be right here waiting for you.” – Richard Marx

181. “Frog and Toad waited a long time. Four days later the snail got to Toad’s house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it. ”

182. “I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. ‘When’s he coming? He’s taking a long time, isn’t he?’” ― Samantha Fox

183. “There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move – and he, in turn, waits for you.” – Marian Anderson

184. “It was lovely to realize that while the fat farmer was sitting up there on the hill waiting for them to starve, he was also giving them their dinner without knowing it.”

185. “Saying its okay take your time I will wait to someone you love is easy but only you can understand the feeling while that time passes by..... that sad... that painful time...”

186. “Never rush in love for it never runs out. Let love be the one to knock on your door so that by the time you start to feel, you’ll know it’s real.” – Unknown

187. “The boy continues to wait, systematically destroying all of the objects from their short-lived relationship. He rips up the bus pass from their first meeting.

188. Delegate to others who have strengths where you don't. But sometimes, you just need to be the one to drive the change when everyone else is waiting for someone else to take the first step. To me, that's courage in action. - Robin Sharma

189. “I just work – however people feel about it, I mean, at the end of the day, if I’m waiting for accolades, I could be waiting all my life, but I don’t need that stuff to validate me. I just do what makes me happy.” ― Nick Cannon

190. I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side. - Paulo Coelho

191. “I can’t do this, I can’t just be a wife. I don’t understand how anyone does it—there is literally nothing to do but wait. Wait for a man to come home and love you. Either that or look around for something to distract you.”

192. For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again. - Haruki Murakami

193. I have faced a lot of abuse and I have experienced a lot of heartbreak. I know someday I’ll find you, my Prince charming who will treat me like a Queen.

194. “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.” – Paulo Coelho

195. “I don’t sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I’m going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.” ― Compay Segundo

196. “She could only wait. But she was not idle while she waited, because she was holding herself in readiness for whatever it was that she would have to do.”

197. “We wait. We are bored. No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. ...In an instant, all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.”

198. “The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It’s patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.” ― Mohnish Pabrai

199. “If something is not going well in your life, you can be sure that you’re not on the move but waiting for something! The way to fix things is action, not standing still!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

200. “The Waiting Place...for people just waiting. Waiting for a train to go or a bus to come, or a plane to go or the mail to come, or the rain to go or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow or the waiting around for a Yes or No or waiting for their hair to grow. Everyone is just waiting.

201. “It was during this period that he might have hearkened to the memories of the lair and the stream and run back to the Wild. But the memory of his mother held him...So he remained in his bondage waiting for her.”

202. “We wait. We are bored. No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. …In an instant, all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.” – Samuel Beckett

203. “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.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

204. That right person might not show up when you wanted him/her the most, but he/she will definitely show up for you at the best time when you need them most.

205. “Promptly at seven the next morning Jurgis reported for work. He came to the door that had been pointed out to him, and there he waited for nearly two hours. The boss had meant for him to enter, but had not said this, and so it was only when on his way out to hire another man that he came upon Jurgis. He gave him a good cursing, but as Jurgis did not understand a word of it he did not object.”

206. “I know my love for you will never change; I know that one day you’ll come back to me. My love for you is so strong I can’t wait to be with you again.”

207. “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” – Thomas Merton

208. When you finally meet the right person, cherish and love them, and never take them for granted. Remember the pain and the price you paid before you found them.

209. “There is a reason why wise men say that you need to wait instead of meeting the wrong person; you always find the hidden feelings emerge after some time.” ―Unknown

210. “Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people in your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts.

211. “I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling don’t be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you a thousand more.” – Christina Perri

212. “The day you start realizing that waiting for love is the best decision. From that day, you start developing the patience to achieve objectives in life.” – Unknown

213. Waiting could be hard, but in between the wait and the pain comes that special person who loves and values you, and gives you the best care you ever deserve.

214. “❝ SOME PEOPLE NEVER CONSIDER THE RAMIFICATIONS OF A LIE. AFTER A WHILE, A LIE CAN BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE AS IF IT WAS NEVER A LIE. YOU’RE FLOATING IN BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION. THE PROBLEM IS IF YOU KEEP THAT LIE TO YOURSELF, EVENTUALLY IT WILL EAT AT YOU.”

215. I’ve waited so long, yet no result. I am really tired of waiting at the moment. I hope I will find the right motivation to hang on, just a little longer.

216. “It’s good if we wait for some moment before we exchange our hearts. I have plans to indulge in romance before we become each other’s forever.” ― Anonymous

217. “On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.” – George W. Cecil

218. “Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for the wind to fly a kite or waiting around for Friday night or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil, or a Better Break or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants or a wig with curls, or Another Chance. Everyone is just waiting.”

219. “Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words ‘for ever.’ But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don’t like doing it.” – Marian Keyes

220. “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

221. “I am a prince I have it all, and I hear your foot steps on the wall, I wait in silence for your call, and take a shot and watch you fall.” — Trey Anastasio

222. I can’t wait to have you back, my Love. Though it takes a million years, I will still keep waiting. I love you so much, and I can’t afford to lose you.

223. Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. - George Washington Carver

224. “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.” ―Paulo Coelho

225. “There will be times when you wait, for the man who never comes, for the man who is coming to you from the past, but there will also be times when you will have to wait.”

226. “Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.” – Dr. Robert Anthony

227. “Longing for love is the most beautiful yet extremely difficult experience. You see the hope fade away in the fog of patience every day, but still choose to hold on to that single ray of light that shines through.” – Unknown

228. “Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.” – Albert Schweitzer

229. It’s been a long time, my Darling. I am patiently waiting for that day when I will hold you in my arms. I know you will come to me one day, and I’ll be here to gladly receive you.

230. “I’m waiting for someone special that makes me smile everyday. Someone I can talk to about anything. Someone who makes me feel beautiful. Because if I’m going to fall in love, I want it to be with somebody special and extraordinary.” – Unknown

231. “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”

232. Stay Positive: Waiting could be tedious, however filling your heart with beautiful pictures of when you’ll finally meet the person will help you stay positive and help you keep holding on.

233. “I was thinking,” he whispered. “If you’d taken me to bed ten years ago like I wanted and I fucked you every night since then, I’d have had you over three thousand times by now. Imagine that. How good it would be. I’d blow your fucking mind.”

234. Letting you go is the most painful thing to do, but keeping you with me seems like the most impossible thing, I’m sorry I have to let you go, I hope you find the right person.

235. “Sometimes we sit around waiting for someone or a situation to change but patience isn’t always the answer sometimes you just need to change your direction and approach.” ― Hopal Green

236. “The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.” – Mandy Hale

237. “She crept back into the silent house, past the closed bedroom door inside which the other mother and the other father [...] what? she wondered. Slept? Waited?”

238. “Feeling un-steady and needing something. So right in your ears, maybe, bells are ringing. In words of love sounds so sweet which give the heart many extra beat.” ―Hubert Winston Anderson

239. “It’s good if we wait for some moment before we exchange our hearts. I have plans to indulge in romance before we become each other’s forever.” – Unknown

240. “Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

241. “I’ll cling to the hope that one day, after such a strenuous wait, I shall hold you in my arms and whisper against your lips, “My dearest, you were worth every second.”

242. “The whole tribe was there, sitting around the kitchen table, waiting for dinner to be served. Except for the old man, of course. As usual, he was down the pub.”

243. “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”

244. “Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word ‘waiting’ out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!”

245. “The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.” ―Mandy Hale

246. “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.” – Barack Obama

247. “I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!” – Stevie Ray Vaughan

248. “I have been marking every day on the calendar to keep a check for how long I can wait for your return. Do you wish to see the calendar I am marking?” – Unknown

249. I think that love is stronger than habits or circumstances. I think it is possible to keep yourself for someone for a long time, and still remember why you were waiting when she comes at last. - Peter S. Beagle

250. “Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.”

251. “Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.” ― Karl Lagerfeld

252. “I guess missing you takes its time, and every minute and mile between us keeps me leaning on a prayer to Jesus, begging for the day you come back home.” – Bailey Zimmerman

253. “It was lovely to realize that while the fat farmer was sitting up there on the hill waiting for them to starve, he was also giving them their dinner without knowing it.” – Roald Dahl

254. Waiting; Although not easy, it is good. Though painful, it is great, and though tiring, it is the best exercise to keep you fit for the best you deserve.

255. “Waiting is something we all do, whether it is waiting in line, waiting for a stoplight or just waiting for the days, hours and minutes to pass.” — Bruce Wright

256. “The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.”