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

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

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

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

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.

I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.

Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.

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

And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.

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.

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

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 year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.