Fanny Kemble Quotes

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

Since I can't be with you right now I will have to be content just dreaming about when we will be together again.

We'll grow old waiting.

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

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.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.

Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.

I'd like to shower and change clothes," she said. "Would you mind waiting for me a half hour?" The question seemed to amuse him. "Not at all," he said with exaggerated formality. "Please take all the time you need." Michael watched her walk away. Did he mind waiting a half hour for her? Not at all. He'd been waiting years for her.

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

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

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

If you let go of me now,” I whispered, stretching against him, “it could be another six hundred years before you find me again. Are you willing to take that risk?

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

She waited for you in a thousand different ways.

Where are you now, my beloved? Do you hear my weeping From beyond the ocean? Do you understand my need? Do you know the greatness of my patience?

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.

I hope it won't take long.

I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.

I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come" (Phebe)