Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

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.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

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

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

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?

The suspense is terrible. I hope it'll last.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

If one were to build the house of happiness, the largest space would be the waiting room.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

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

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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.

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

Hope is merely another face of desire.

to hope was to expect

A human being is all hope and impatience.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

All I get is tomorrow.