quotations about waiting
Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside.
MICHEL FOUCAULT
"The Thought of the Outside", Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
All the King's Men
To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.
ROLAND BARTHES
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
Housekeeping
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
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
Time felt slower when we do nothing but wait.
TOBA BETA
My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Choke