200+ Quotes About Waiting For Love

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Finding true love often takes time, and waiting for it can be challenging. However, quotes about waiting for love can provide comfort and inspiration to those still searching for their soulmate. These quotes remind us that love is worth the wait and that rushing into it is not necessary. Some people spend years waiting to meet their special someone. While discovering true love is an incredible feeling, it’s even more rewarding after months or years of anticipation and effort. Our collection of quotes on waiting for love will evoke a sense of nostalgia and hope.

If you are longing to meet the romance of your life, our waiting quotes for love can boost you to keep going. You may even share them with your significant other to express your emotions.

200+ Quotes On Waiting For Love

1. “Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.” ―Luanne Rice
2. “If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day.” ―Paulo Coelho
3. “I have enough patience to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.” ―Lailah Gifty Akita
4. “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
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. “Remember not to fall in love with the one who says the right thing, but fall in love with the one who does the right thing.”
7. “Trust the almighty. He’ll open up the right door at the right time” ―Sophieya
8. “Waiting is the rust of the soul.” ―Carlos Ruiz Zafon
9. “There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.” ―J. G. Holland
10. “Remember, waiting in love doesn’t mean stopping. Love is the greatest blessing in our life.”
11. “To wait for you has been my greatest happiness.”
12. “Love is not about how long I can wait for someone, but finding the true meaning of what I’m waiting for.”
13. “How much of human life is lost in waiting.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. “We all have many great loves but to find a soul mate, is the ultimate conquest.” ―Marni S. Feldman
15. “Some wishes are only there to teach us how to wait.” ―Mandy Hale
16. “All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.” ―Woodrow Wilson
17. “If we’re waiting for the most convenient time to say I love you, we may never find one.” ―Terry Mark
18. “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
19. “For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person who’s waiting.” – Haruki Murakami
20. “Yearning for love is like yearning for food. Something to make the body feels real good, for love is like food, we all really need. So yearning for it is wonderful indeed.” – Hubert Winston Anderson
21. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” ―William Shakespeare
22. Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite. ―Austin O’Malley
23. “The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.” ―Mandy Hale
24. “You have to give it a love shot somehow.” ―Abdul’Rauf Hashmi
25. “My longing to find love did not make me lose my sense of reason or perspective.” ―Bell Hooks
26. “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
27. “Love is not about finding someone to live with. It’s about finding someone without whom you cannot live.”
28. “Never rush in love. Let love be the one to knock at your door first, so that you feel it’s real.”

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29. “I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time.”―Lauren Kate
30. “True love may happen at first sight but to admit it, requires years of patience and confidence.”
31. “If you choose to wait, you will surely find the person who can shape your life and fill it with colors.”
32. “Waiting is the foundation upon which the palace of love is built.”
33. “I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.” ―Robert Browning
34. “If you can’t ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die.” ―Michael Bassey Johnson
35. “I spent my early 20’s, searching for love without knowing what I was actually in search of” ―R.H. Sin
36. “Love me or step aside so another person can.” ―Agnes Bonas
37. “God saves the best for people who know to wait.”
38. “In the silence of waiting, love finds its perfect moment to shine.”
39. “The art of waiting is the art of learning that true love will come.”
40. “Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life. – Leo Babauta
41. “I might have to wait; I’ll never give up. I guess its half timing and the other half’s luck. Wherever you are, whenever it’s right. You’ll come out of nowhere and into my life”―Micheal Bubble
42. “How many more days will you wait for that clink. That you’ll cross her mind and she’ll finally see? People don’t think of people as much as we think, but we think of people, so which people are we?”―Karl Kristian Flores
43. “Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” ―Paulo Coelho
44. “Although I don’t like waiting, I’m willing to wait to gain your love for all the years to come.”
45. “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.” – T. S. Eliot
46. “Tell me to wait and I will wait for the one who dwells in my heart.”
47. “The wait is long, my dream of you does not end.” – Nuala O’Faolain
48. “The right person will come, once you have suffered enough to deserve her.” ―Juvenal Lopez
49. “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
50. “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
51. Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on what we’re waiting for. ―Charles Stanley
52. “Real love trusts, mature love understands, and true love waits. – Analiza Garcia
53. “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

Trivia

According to a Marist poll, nearly 73% of people in the US believe in soulmates and finding true love (1).

54. “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 AnthonyKreucher
55. “Love is everything it’s cracked up to be It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.” ―Erica Jong
56. “People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting” ―French Proverb
57. “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
58. “Love is the sweetest fruit at the end of the beautiful journey called waiting.”
59. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
60. “True love is the masterpiece that evolves from the canvas of patient hearts.”
61. “I don’t stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.” – Marlon Brando
62. “Arguably one of the most difficult concepts in life for us to grasp is the art of waiting patiently.” ―Mandy Hale
63. “When one pine and yearned for love, then it’s good to pray to our lord above. Both God and love are needed that one may be bound, as we try to make the mind very sound.” ―Hubert Winston Anderson
64. “Your love made it all worth waiting for someone like you.” ―Dean Martin
65. “Always and forever, each moment with you just like a dream to me that somehow came true.” ―Gabrielle Moore
66. “Waiting is the most challenging part of loving someone; you need it to know whether it’s your true love or not.”
67. “Waiting for love is like a flower about to bloom. You can’t rush for it, but once it is done, it’s worth the wait.”
68. “Women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting to love but not receiving it.” ―Bell Hooks
69. “We don’t need anything but ourselves yet we want more when we find the right one.” ― Marni S. Feldman
70. “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.”―Criss Jami
71. “Sometimes, the moments spent in waiting for something are even more important than the moment something actually happens.” ―Mandy Hale
72. “Although waiting is not easy, it is the best exercise that can keep you fit and feel loved for your entire life.”
73. “Waiting for the right person is the only option after painful heartbreaks and countless tears.”
74. “Feeling un-steady and needing something. So right in your ears, maybe, bells are ringing. In words of love sounds so sweet which give the heart many extra beat.” ―Hubert Winston Anderson
75. “One of the biggest reasons why I stayed single for so long is because I was waiting for Ms. Right to come and surprise me.” ―Unknown
76. “Waiting for someone should not be out of compulsion. If you are waiting to pass your time, it’s not worth waiting for.”
77. “Love is a journey and I’m ready to wait because I believe that love will find me at the end.”
78. “Love is the song that sounds the sweetest when you have been waiting to hear its melody.”
79. “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
80. “Sometimes, it’s best to just stay tight and wait for the love of your life to finally come.” ―Unknown
81. “I had waited all these years for the right time to say the three magical words; maybe the persistence results in a positive response.” ―Unknown

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82. “You have to wait in love because your heart needs to judge the person closely, as maybe it’s not the love of your life.” ―Unknown
83. “Waiting for the right person is the best gift that you can give yourself.”
84. “I have been marking every day in the calendar to keep a check on how long I have been waiting for you, my love.”
86. “I have waited a long time to hear from you, now that you are back in town. I just want to hold you in my arms.” ―Unknown
87. “True love changes everything when time nurtures relationships. Now it’s the right moment to cherish true love.” ―Unknown
88. “I want to tell you how difficult it was waiting for you, my love. Now when you are here, please make me forever yours.” ―Unknown
89. “Waiting for true love is like waiting for a shooting star. You have to be patient but when it happens, it feels magical.”
90. “Choosing to wait for someone should be your personal choice.”
91. “Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.” – Gregory Corso
92. “It’s good if we wait for some moment before we exchange our hearts. I have plans to indulge in romance before we become each other’s forever.” ―Unknown
93. “Waiting can be difficult when loving someone deeply; you need to wait for the right moment to know that it is really a true feeling.” ―Unknown
94. “If she has waited all these years just to hear from you, then my dear friend, she’s a gem; never let her go away.” ―Unknown
95. “The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” – Eden Phillpotts
96. “Just tell me to wait for love and I’ll show you what is waiting in true love called.’
97. “Although the worst part of life is waiting, the best part is to wait for the one who’s worth waiting for.”
98. “True love happens at first sight and ends after waiting for long years to admit it confidently.” ―Unknown
99. “I will wait for you because I have loved you from the bottom of my heart because God created you just for me.” ―Unknown
100. “Will you admit that you love me? Or I need to wait for another year to hear a yes from you.” ―Unknown
101. “I have waited for you every day, waited for every sunrise and sunset. Where are you, my true love? See, I am so lost without you.” ―Unknown
102. “In the Eden of waiting, love blooms into the most beautiful flower.’
103. “Waiting for a few minutes means your need, waiting for a few hours means your trust, waiting for a few weeks is friendship, but waiting for years for the right person is true love.”
104. “The heart that waits for love is the heart that knows the art of anticipation.”

Did you know?

Falling in love can be euphoric. You may experience a natural high caused by an excess production of feel-good hormones such as oxytocin, dopamine, and adrenaline (2).

105. “I should have waited for a couple of more days and surprised you with Valentine’s gift. But I can’t wait too long to celebrate Valentine’s every day.” ―Unknown
106. “True love appreciates waiting and rewards the lover with eternal love.” ―Unknown
107. “I don’t want to wait for more years to propose to you. Your steadfastness and loyalty have shown me that you are the one I want to spend the rest of my life with. I can’t see you slipping away with someone else, so here I say, I love you.” ―Unknown
108. “ Waiting in love is a test of how deep and passionate your love is.”
109. “The wait for love is not a sign of inadequacy or unworthiness, it’s a sign of confidence and self-respect.”
110. “Often waiting in love may cause agitation and restlessness. But it is wise enough to wait patiently for the right person.”
111. “I had always been in your heart, waiting for you to hear my heartbeat. Did you ever notice something in your heart?” ―Unknown
112. “I wish to hold you; I wish to kiss you; I wish to see you without waiting for your office hours to end.” ―Unknown
113. “I’m not in a hurry to find love because I know true love comes after waiting.”
114. “My heart misses you and your craziness. It misses you my darling and I’m desperately waiting for you.”
115. “I’m ready to wait for you because you lie deep within my heart.”
116. “The perfect moment is when you get a surprise after waiting for your lover to confess secret feelings.” ―Unknown
117. “Waiting for years just to hear I love you can test one’s devotion. Maybe now, he knows just how much I love him.” ―Unknown
118. “My heart misses the warmth and love of your body and soul. Remember that I will always be waiting for you, love.”
119. “Nights are so lonely without you. I miss you deeply and I’m waiting for you to come back to me.”
120. “There’s no point in waiting for the right person when you already have him sitting behind.” ―Unknown

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121. “Why wait in anticipation for the day that he will return back. Sometimes moving on is a better choice.” ―Unknown
122. “Wait for five years, and you will find my love and devotion are still the same. I will love you forever, and you need to believe this fact.” ―Unknown
123. “Art of waiting is great; if you wait, you get the fruit. I am waiting for you, as you are my precious.” ―Unknown
124. “God has the best plans for the best people who know how to wait for true love, the ones who are patient and always generous.” ―Unknown
125. “When the right time arrives, you will find the perfect person, a soulmate to commit forever love.” ―Unknown
126. “I would love to wait for someone who will make me smile everyday, someone who will make me feel special every moment.”
127. “I eagerly long to hold you in my arms and erase all the negative feelings. You are my hero and I’m ready to wait for your heroic comeback.”
128. “If you choose to wait for the right time, true love will surely meet you and fill your life with happiness.” ―Unknown
129. “Even if things were different, I would have still waited for you. I am so much in love with you that I am willing to make sacrifices and wait for years just to be with you..” ―Unknown
130. “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
131. “The thoughts about seeing you are now making me dream of you. Please come to me soon, and I think I can’t wait so long to see you.” ―Unknown
132. “Sometimes the wait for love might feel like waiting for eternity, but trust me, you will be the winner at the end.”
133. “The art of waiting is great, you get the sweetest fruit at the end.”
134. “Darling, I have waited 1000 years for you. This is the secret I wanted to tell you, and now you are aware of my secret”. ―Unknown
135. “I don’t believe in waiting for love; I feel afraid and shocked that the fire would burn too fast and die.” ―Unknown
136. “If you get eager for love, you will only get hurt. It is best to wait if you need love to stay forever.” ―Unknown
137. “Wait for the perfect person; even if you don’t like waiting, having fortitude and waiting for the right moment will be worth it when you see the magic of finding the one who is truly meant for you.” ―Unknown
138. “Waiting for love is not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength which shows your power not to settle for something that you don’t deserve.”
139. “Love is not a competition, but a game of two hearts and I’m willing to wait till I find my team mate.”
140. “Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.” – Neil Diamond
141. “I have waited long years for love, I went through all the sadness and pain, but I never forgot you.” ―Unknown
142. “I can wait for you 365 days, just hearing your favorite songs on repeat every day.” ―Unknown

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143. “I feel crazy after years of waiting, I just kept waiting, and she got married to some other guy.” ―Unknown
144. “Waiting for love is like the change of season- it brings us closer to its arrival.”
145. “I had always been in your heart, waiting and wanting to hear your heartbeat.”
146. “I have waited long for you and now that you are near me, I want to hear those three golden words from you- ‘I love you.”
147. “I want to share how difficult it was waiting for you. Now you are with me, so make me yours forever.”
148. “I confess, I have waited long for your love. Now when you are mine, just let your eyes only see me.” ―Unknown
149. “There is a reason why wise men say that you need to wait instead of meeting the wrong person; you always find the hidden feelings emerge after some time.” ―Unknown
150. “Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will be right here waiting for you. Whatever it takes or how my heart breaks, I will be right here waiting for you.” – Richard Marx
151. “Some things in life are worth waiting for.” – Danielle Steel
152. “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
153. “I am ceaselessly waiting for you in the burning fire of waiting forever. It may not end today, tomorrow, or ever.” – Debasish Mridha
154. “The day you start realizing that waiting for love is the best decision. From that day on, you start developing the patience to achieve objectives in life.” ―Unknown
155. “If you ever feel confused in life, you should wait for some time and make the right move at the right time.” ―Unknown
156. “Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So, I give you my life, hoping that you will come back to me.” – Rumi
157. “I have waited for you long and now, it’s just you whom my eyes can visualize forever.”

Quotes About Patience In Love

158. “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.” ―Oscar Wilde
159. “If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” —Princess Diana
160. “Never rush into a relationship. True love is bound to reveal itself sooner or later.” – Jayden Hayes
161. “All good things come to those who wait.” – Paullina Simons
162. “Time is the best teacher; patience is the best lesson.” ―Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
163. “Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” ―Joyce Meyer
164. “Love is the poetry of the soul and patience is the ink that writes the poem.”
165. “Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow – that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” ―Leo Tolstoy
166. “Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. – Rudyard Kipling
167. “Patience is the bridge that leads to the heart’s deepest desires.”
168. “Finding and waiting for true love is like cooking a meal which requires patience, creativity, and a willingness to wait.”
169. “Waiting needs patience, and with patience comes the art to achieve desires.” ―Unknown
170. “Love is the treasure we seek and patience is the compass that guides our way.”
171. “Love is not something you can buy, it has to be earned with patience, trust, and honesty.”
172. “In the book of love, every chapter begins with patience.”
173. “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing.” It waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.” ― Fulton J. Sheen

Quotes About Hope In Love

174. “Don’t rush into love. You’ll find the person meant for you when you least expect it.”―FranzieGubatina
175. “Good things come to those who wait, Better things come to those who try.” ―Nishan Panwar
176. “A day will come when someone will walk into your life and make you realize why it didn’t work out well with others.”
177. “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
178. “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
179. “There are people out there who are waiting to meet you. Waiting to love you. You have to stick around for them.” ―Benedict Smith
180. “One of the reasons that I’m single is that I’m waiting for Mr. Right to enter my life.”
181. “Deep within me I feel that a part of me will always be waiting for you.”
182. “Stay calm and patient that the right person will arrive at the right time.”
183. “If you love someone, and they don’t love you back, wait.”- Sage Cohen
184. “You just have to wait to receive true happiness in your love life; trust the fact.” ―Unknown
185. “Wait for the right moment, and the right person will make things a whole lot happier but at the right time.” ―Unknown
186. “Remember that you deserve the best things in life. So, wait for the right person who will bring you a box full of surprises.”
187. “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Sharon Begley
188. “You are not waiting for someone ordinary. You are waiting for someone who is just perfect for you.”
189. “The wait for love might be tough, but that’s what makes victory so pleasant.”
190. “In the dance of life, love is the waltz and graceful step that completes the dance.”

Reflective Quotes In Love

191. “Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.” ―John Keats
192. “I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds, but I think of you always in those intervals.” – Salvador Plascencia
193. “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
194. “Waiting for someone is our destiny. So, keep waiting till the stars align in your favor.”
195. “If you are in love with someone, learn to wait. Maybe you are not meant to be together in the present but in the future.”
196. “I’m not just waiting for love, I’m waiting to upgrade myself to become a better version of myself.”
197. “Tell me to wait in love, and I swear I will wait for the one and only who dwells in my heart. Maybe my dedication and confidence to wait in love makes her mine forever.” ―Unknown
198. “The secret to waiting in love is not to focus on the destination, but on the journey as it unlocks some secret at every step.”
199. “Even if you are a discreet gentleman, you still need to develop a habit of waiting for the right love to truly bless your life.” ―Unknown
200. “Love is when you hold me; love is when you wait for me; love is the pulse, towards you, which pulls me.” – Girish Bhake
201. “You need to wait in love for you need time to judge the person closely.”
202. “In the real world, waiting for the right person is everyone’s destiny. So, wait until the stars are aligned in your favor.” ―Unknown
203. “If you deserve true love, you need to value it by waiting for the right time to come and surprise you.” ―Unknown
204. “True love is worth waiting for and worth fighting for. I won’t give up on love till I find my dream person.”
205. “I hardly care if you can wait for me, or you can’t. I know exactly how to get you by hook or crook.” ―Unknown

Infographic: Songs About Waiting For Love

Love will always find you at the right time. But waiting for that right time while not knowing how sooner or later it will arrive might make one anxious. To help you keep your hopes up, we have prepared a list of love songs about waiting for the right person to come along and showering them with your love. We hope that you will be able to relate to these songs and believe that you will find love soon.

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