D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are waiting.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

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

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

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

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

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

If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.

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?

And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.

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

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy -the thrill of anticipation.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

All is waiting and all is work; all is change and all is permanence.

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.