Marguerite Duras Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.

  Marguerite Duras

  Waiting, Battle, Arms

  Marguerite Duras (1986). “La douleur”, HarperCollins

• She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

  Marguerite Duras

  Years, Waiting, Might

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.57, Pantheon

• I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.

  Marguerite Duras

  Children, Doors, Waiting

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.25, Pantheon

• Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.

  Marguerite Duras

  Eye, Men, Hands

  Marguerite Duras (1986). “La douleur”, HarperCollins

• Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.

  Marguerite Duras

  Men, Differences, Waiting

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