“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
"With or Without You"
Lyrics, The Joshua Tree (1987)
Context: I wait for you
Sleight of hand and twist of fate
On a bed of nails she makes me wait
And I wait, without you
With or without you, with or without you.
“If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.”
Source: Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide To Life & Death And Love & Sex
“I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)
“A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.”
Source: The Paths of the Dead: Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha (2003) https://vtmolo.com/quotes-about-ambition/ (vtmolo)]
“A million eyes, a million boots in line,
Without expression, waiting for a sign.”
The Shield of Achilles (1952)
"The Sentinel" (1948), originally titled "Sentinel of Eternity" this is the short story which later provided the fundamental ideas for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) written by Clarke and Stanley Kubrick. Full text in 10 Story Fantasy, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 1951), p. 41 https://archive.org/details/10_Story_Fantasy_v01n01_1951-Spring_Tawrast-EXciter/page/n39. Two versions of the next to the last sentence have been widely published since at least 1951, the other being: "If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait."
1940s