149 Thoughtful Quotes on the Patience of Waiting for Love

While awaiting the embrace of true love, let these eloquent words from renowned individuals soothe your heart.

Real love, pure and enduring, weathers even the fiercest storms. Its power compels us to persist, even when faced with overwhelming odds. Yet, the path to love can be fraught with challenges, especially when awaiting the heart’s reciprocal beat. Dive into these carefully curated quotes about the poignant wait for love. They touch upon the depths of yearning, the subtle sting of memory, and the beautiful vulnerability that makes love profoundly worthwhile. So, without further ado, immerse yourself in these sentiments.

Awaiting Love: 149 Quotes to Inspire Patience and Hope

The magic of love lies not just in finding it, but in the sweet anticipation it brings. When it eventually graces your life, nurture it with fervour, tenderness, and boundless commitment. Let your relationship flourish with romance, unwavering loyalty, deep intimacy, and a heartfelt connection.

Seek always to foster understanding, empathy, kindness, and gratitude with one another, allowing these virtues to illuminate your shared journey. Here’s a collection of reflections to guide and comfort you:

1. “Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on what we’re waiting for.” – Charles Stanley
2. “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. ” – Erica Jong
3. “Real love trusts, mature love understands, and true love waits.” – Analiza Garcia
4. “Your face faded from the wall of my memories as I waited, but the smell of your memories lingered like that of fresh paint.” – Unknown
5. “The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you’re out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form. ” – A.J. Darkholme
6. “To long for you has been my biggest bliss. ” – Unknown
7. “I will wait for you because honestly I don’t want anyone else. ” – Unknown
8. “You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, and what’s written in the stars.” – Anais Nin
9. “Don’t fall in love with someone who says the right things. Fall in love with someone who does the right things.” – Robert Tew
10. “One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.” – Unknown
11. “Love isn’t finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” – Unknown
12. “I wasn’t expecting you. I didn’t think that we would end up together. The single most extraordinary thing I’ve ever done with my life is fall in love with you. I’ve never been seen so completely, loved so passionately and protected so fiercely.” – Beth Pearson
13. “Love is not about how long I can wait for someone, but about how well I understand why I am waiting.” – Unknown
14. “Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis
15. “Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.” – Rudyard Kipling
16. “How many more days will you wait for that clink – that you’ll cross her mind and she’ll finally see?” – Karl Kristian Flores
17. “‘For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person who’s waiting.” – Haruki Murakami
18. “The right person will come, once you have suffered enough to deserve her.” – Juvenal Lopez
19. “Maybe we’ll meet again, when we are slightly older and our minds are less hectic, and I’ll be right for you and you’ll be right for me.” – Gabrielle Zevin
20. “I am waiting and hoping and wishing for the time when we can be together.” – Unknown
21. “Love isn’t supposed to be a fleeting moment. It is an everlasting sensation and experience you patiently wait for.” – Unknown
22. “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting; take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.” – Chris Jami
23. “I might have to wait, I’ll never give up.” – Michael Bubble
24. “Heartbreaks and hardships are perhaps the few hurdles you cross to meet your love in the middle of the ground of this love maze.” – Unknown
25. “Who am I but a person that is far too small to understand the concept of love, so I wait.” – Unknown
26. “Waiting for love isn’t a cake walk, but the reward is as satisfying as a delicious cake.” – Unknown
27. “Maybe the right thing to do is sit tight and wait for love to come my way finally.” – Unknown
28. “You wait for love simply because you believe in it; you think it exists and is trustworthy.” – Unknown
29. “You will know if a person truly loves you if he is willing to wait for you no matter how long.” – Unknown
30. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” – A. A. Milne
31. “Waiting for love is not easy; you need to have the right amount of willpower to do so.” – Unknown
32. “I wish I had known that the sun would never shine without you, then I would have waited then.” – Unknown
33. “Longing for love is the most beautiful yet extremely difficult experience. You see the hope fade away in the fog of patience every day, but still choose to hold on to that single ray of light that shines through.” – Unknown
34. “If you wait for the right time, for the perfect love, you will get there when you need it most.” – Unknown
35. “Even if you are a man, you still need to wait for the right love to pursue with all of you truly.” – Unknown
36. “One day, you will realise that waiting for love is the best decision you have ever made.” – Unknown
37. “Waiting for love is not the only way you can show love, but it is by far the best one there is.” – Unknown
38. “Tell me you care about me, and I will tell you how long I am willing to wait for you.” – Unknown
39. “If you chase love, you won’t catch it. If you rush into it, it won’t last.” – Unknown
40. “Because love is life and life is love. There’s no life without love and there’s no love without life, and waiting is the bridge between the two.” – Unknown
41. “If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.” – Paulo Coelho
42. “My longing to find love did not make me lose my sense of reason or perspective.” – Bell Hooks
43. “Waiting for your love is like sunshine at night.” – Unknown
44. “Patience is the key to finding true love.” – Unknown
45. “I had waited all these years for the right time to say the three magical words; maybe the waiting results in a positive response.” – Unknown
46. “The actual test for being a loving person is knowing how to wait for the right moment to say so.” – Unknown
47. “When the right time arrives, you will find the perfect person, a soulmate to commit forever love.” – Unknown
48. “If you choose to wait for the right time, true love will surely meet you and fill your life with happiness.” – Unknown
49. “I have been marking every day on the calendar to keep a check for how long I can wait for your return. Do you wish to see the calendar I am marking.” – Unknown
50. “True love waits; it encompasses everything else; it makes people happy and sad all the same.” – Unknown
51. “Had he told me to wait for him, I would have; maybe he would have come back to me now.” – Unknown
52. “Never rush into a relationship. True love is bound to reveal itself sooner or later.” – Jayden Hayes
53. “I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.” – Paulo Coelho
54. “Never rush in love for it never runs out. Let love be the one to knock on your door so that by the time you start to feel, you’ll know it’s real.” – Unknown
55. “Waiting is the rust of the soul.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” – Paulo Coelho
57. “Waiting is a sign of true love and patience. Anyone can say I love you, but not everyone can wait and prove it’s true.” – Unknown
58. ” The course of true love never did run smooth and includes a lot of waiting too.” – William Shakespeare
59. “Love is not about how long I can wait for someone, but about how well I understand why I am waiting.” – Unknown
60. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” – Oscar Wilde
61. “I have died everyday waiting for you. Darling, don’t be afraid, I have loved you for a thousand years. I’ll love you a thousand more.” – Christina Perri
62. “I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.” – Robert Browning
63. “It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.” – Mandy Hale
64. “I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.” – Lauren Kate
65. “Don’t rush into love. You’ll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.” – Franzie Gubatina
66. “Yearning for love is like yearning for food. Something to make the body feel real good, for love is like food, which we all really need. So yearning for it is wonderful indeed.” – Hubert Winston Anderson
67. “Love is when you hold me. Love is when you wait for me. Love is the pulse, towards you, which pulls me.” – Unknown
68. “The stars know everything so we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, we choose to whisper in their presence.” – Charles Simic
69. “I’m not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have the time, I will come to understand you- better than anyone else in the world.” – Haruki Murakami
70. “In nostalgia there’s no difference between a day, a year, a decade, or a lifetime because the amount of longing is beyond the idea of time.” – Khalil Gibran
71. “I would have waited for you beyond this lifetime and many if you just held my hand and gave me a single word, any. I would have stayed.” – Unknown
72. “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.” – Franz Kafka
73. “I only miss you when I’m breathing.” – Jason Derulo
74. “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds, but I think of you always in those intervals.” – Salvador Plascencia
75. “We are free to love who we want, be who we want, and say what we want.” – Agnes Bonas
76. “Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.” – Luanne Rice
77. “I have enough patience to wait for the fulfilllment of my wishes.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
78. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” – Princess Diana
79. “Trust the almighty. He’ll open up the right door at the right time” – Sophieya
80. “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” – John Keats
81. “There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” – J. G. Holland
82. “How much of human life is lost in waiting.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
83. “We all have many great loves but to find a soul mate is the ultimate conquest.” – Marni S. Feldman
84. “Good things come to those who wait, better things come to those who try.” – Nishan Panwar
85. “Some wishes are only there to teach us how to wait.” – Mandy Hale
86. “All things come to the one who waits – provided he knows what he is waiting for.” – Woodrow Wilson
87. “If we’re waiting for the most convenient time to say I love you, we may never find one.” – Terry Mark
88. Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite. – Austin O’Malley
89. “You have to give it a love shot somehow.” – Abdul Rauf Hashmi
90. “Time is the best teacher; patience is the best lesson.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
91. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer
92. “If you can’t ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
93. “I spent my early 20’s, searching for love without knowing what I was actually in search of” – R.H. Sin
94. “Love me or step aside so another person can.” – Agnes Bonas
95. “There are people out there who are waiting to meet you. Waiting to love you. You have to stick around for them.” – Benedict Smith
96. “Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don’t count.” – Dr. Robert Anthony Kreucher
97. “We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
98. “When one pine and yearns for love, then it’s good to pray to our lord above. Both God and love are needed so that one may be bound, as we try to make the mind very sound.” – Hubert Winston Anderson
99. “Love yourself first, then you can love everybody else.” – Agnes Bonas
100. “Your love made it all worth waiting for someone like you.” – Dean Martin
101. “Women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting to love but not receiving it.” – Bell Hooks
102. “We don’t need anything but ourselves yet we want more when we find the right one.” – Marni S. Feldman
103. “Sometimes, the moments spent in waiting for something are even more important than the moment something actually happens.” – Mandy Hale
104. “In a world filled with women, I hope you find someone who isn’t afraid to commit to a relationship with just you.” – R.H. Sin
105. “She wasn’t looking for a man that nobly beat his chest and proclaimed, ‘I would die for you!’, in fact, she wasn’t looking for anyone. She was content in waiting for a man that said, ‘l will live for you’, then proved it. One is a once in a lifetime event. The other is a lifetime event” – Lee Goff
106. “I don’t stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.” – Marlon Brando
107. “I don’t want to throw him anything. Maybe he’ll just get tired of waiting and leave.” – Lefty Gomez
108. “No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.” – Megan Fox
109. “Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting.” – Gregory David Roberts
110. “Just because I’m alone doesn’t mean I’m lonely.” – Marni S. Feldman
111. “I’m tired of waiting for you everyday that you’ll love me too.” – Rupa Nallari
112. “You know I’m getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.” – Veronica Roth
113. “She’ll be impatient because she’s tired of waiting. She’ll seem selfish because she’s tired of not being chosen but there’s love in her heart. You’ll just need to work for it because she’s worth it.” – R.H. Sin
114. “You can’t force someone to care, you can only sit and wait till everything catches up to them and when it finally does maybe then they’ll realize what they lost.” ― Nishan Panwar
115. “Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
116. “And if I can’t be yours now, I’ll wait here on this ground till you come, till you take me away. Maybe someday.” – Colleen Hoover
117. “The beauty of the unexpected lies within the surprise of the momentum, not only at its tipping point, but also within all the moments waiting.” – Akilnathan Logeswaran
118. “Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life.” – Leo Babauta
119. “Sometimes you wait for the right time and you run out of time altogether.” – Regina Sirois
120. “Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.” – Nutan Bajracharya
121. “Practice patience to get the results but don’t be much patient to take actions.” – Amit Kalantri
122. “Love is not an affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” – C. S. Lewis
123. “The love, kindnesses, and value we have given authentically to others will be our remaining treasures at the end of life.” – Steve Brunkhorst
124. “We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.” – Lysa TerKeurst
125. “Arguably one of the most difficult concepts in life for us to grasp is the art of waiting patiently.” ― Mandy Hale
126. “You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are.” – Amy Poehler
127. “My heart is not closed; it is just not opened to everyone.” – Marni S. Feldman
128. “Grow old with me, the best is yet to come.” – Robert Browning
129. Earth is full of heartache and strife, being able to share the journey with somebody you love helps to make it a little easier.” – Elijah Davidson
130. “ I could never really love because as it turns out I didn’t even know how to love myself.” – R.H. Sin
131. “And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he would be the last one ever and he would walk away now, and it would only be a question of waiting for it all to end and hoping for better things in the next world. But that was silly, it was never too late.” – Brian Moore
132. “Days may pass into months, months may pass into years, and years may pass into decades, but I will always keep waiting for you.” – Avijeet Das
133. The eyes tell a lot about what is going on in the mind, and they can convey love in a way that words cannot. – Alexis G. Roldan
134. “The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain.” – Mandy Hale
135. “Love is something we always yearned for. Whether we are here, there or afar. What else is there to make our lives so happy? With this kind of love, our lives would never be sloppy.” – Hubert Winston Anderson
136. “I’ve already found the right person. I’m just waiting for her to be ready.” – Jessica Clare
137. “I’m not that type of gal who sits at home all day waiting for a guy.” – Marni S. Feldman
138. “Yearn for true love, go try for it. While you are strong and feeling fit. And for sure we need God and love at all times. With God and love, our lives will always be fine.” – Hubert Winston Anderson
139. “Feeling things explainable but never substantial. An emotion that seemed to escape me whenever I thought my grip was tight enough to keep it.” – R.H. Sin
140. “We all have scars; it doesn’t mean we should give up on love.” – Agnes Bonas
141. “You can’t make someone love you by giving them more of what they already don’t appreciate.” – Annie C. White
142. “I won’t ever leave you, even though you’re always leaving me.” – Audrey Niffenegger
143. “Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.” – Gregory Corso
144. “Waiting for someone else to make you happy is the best way to be sad.” – Jeffrey Benjamin
145. “If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” – Morris West
146. “Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing.” – Hilary Duff
147. “Waiting is the great vocation of the dispossessed.” – Mary Gordon
148. “It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.” – Audrey Niffenegger
149. “You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting a long.” – Rabindranath Tagore

The Ebb and Flow of Love: Embracing the Wait

The ebb and flow of emotions, much like the tides, aptly describe the journey of love that ebbs into our lives, leaving an indelible mark. Patience in love becomes a virtue, for the presence of affection and our beloved is not perennial. The allure of awaiting love is twofold – it’s as arduous as it is exhilarating, with each heartbeat echoing the yearning for that special someone. Let the collection of ‘waiting for love’ quotes mentioned above be your comforting companion, reminding you of the bittersweet charm of temporary separations and distance. After all, life’s true essence shines brightest when you cherish and seek the love you desire. Rather than rue moments spent apart, celebrate the longing with undying fervour and unwavering commitment.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. How can ‘waiting-for-love’ quotes inspire and uplift us?

Such quotes serve as gentle reminders to prioritise self-love and self-care. They encourage you to focus on personal growth, ensuring that when love does come knocking, you’re the best version of yourself. Treasure the journey of self-discovery, as it paves the way for deeper connections in the future.

2. What insights do these quotes provide about waiting for love?

Quotes about awaiting love bring hope and reassurance, reinforcing the idea that there’s a perfect match for everyone, and sometimes, the quest takes a while.

3. How can these quotes aid us daily?

They act as guideposts, helping you refine what you seek in a partner. Take time to introspect, pen down the attributes and values you wish for in a significant other, and use it as a roadmap in your journey of love.

4. How can these quotes be integrated into our relationships?

Such quotes emphasise the organic evolution of love. It’s essential to understand that love blossoms naturally and can’t be rushed. Alleviate unnecessary pressures and allow the relationship to flourish in its unique pace and rhythm.

5. What wisdom can we glean from these quotes?

They encourage patience, suggesting the importance of pacing oneself in relationships. Even if there’s an allure in a prospective partner, if your intuition casts doubts on compatibility, heed it. Remember, sometimes, walking away opens the door for better opportunities.

6. How can these quotes fortify our relationships?

By understanding the essence of waiting, you gain clarity on your desires and relationship expectations. Such insights not only guide you towards a suitable partner but also ensure that the bond you share is resilient and enduring in the long run.