Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

Everyday was another day spent waiting. Every night was another night when she might meet someone who would recognize her true worth.

Remember the past - and await the future.

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

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.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

On one hand, it seems like I've waited a long time for this.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.

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

How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")

All I get is tomorrow.

“Who are you?” One who has waited long for you to speak.

There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she was always waiting for him.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

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.

you ask me what I'm looking for, and I outline you. you don't recognize the shape, offer other names. you say my time will come, and I hope.

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

A hush is over everything, Silent as women wait for love; The world is waiting for the spring.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.