Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

I can wait for you longer. Because you have arrived.

Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

We'll grow old waiting.

He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.

I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

The waiting is the hardest part.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

All good things to those who wait.

...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see you again tonight. But I'm willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.