Cesare Pavese Quotes

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.

The waiting is the hardest part.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like.

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

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.

No man can give me any word but Wait.

The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.

Waiting is far more difficult than doing.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.

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

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

It seems like movies normally take a long time to get made. When you focus on it, and you're waiting for something, it seems to take longer.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

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.

As long as one suffers one lives.

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

If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved.' the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.