anxious waiting Quotes

...because he had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn't stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn't hope.

You’re still waiting for the running and the screaming, aren’t you?

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, and from your judgment must expect my fate.

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

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil.

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.

Every human being is tried this way in the active service of expectancy. Now comes the fulfillment and relieves him, but soon he is again placed on reconnaissance for expectancy; then he is again relieved, but as long as there is any future for him, he has not yet finished his service. And while human life goes on this way in very diverse expectancy, expecting very different things according to different times and occasions and in different frames of mind, all life is again one nightwatch of expectancy.

Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.

I never quite know how to fill that anxious, semi-wasted time before a midday flight home.

I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone." Serana told Dan, who blushed.