75 Waiting for Love Quotes That Will Have You Holding Onto Hope

Are you waiting for the love of your life? Don’t be sad! While it sometimes feels like you’re the only single person left on Earth when you’re surrounded by couples in your life, a big chunk of the population is just like you – hoping to meet their special person very soon.

We’ve curated some very beautiful quotes for you. A lot of these waiting for love quotes will imbue you with anticipation and hope. Some will tell you to trust the timing of your life. And one very funny and sassy quote talked about not sitting around at home waiting for a guy. See if you can spot them all below. 

And good luck! Remember that good things come to good people.

Waiting for Love Quotes

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

For you, I will wait.

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

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

Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life. – Leo Babauta

Remember 3 things: I’m here, I’ll wait, and I love you more than anything.

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

True love stories never have endings. – Richard Bach


If you can’t ignore imperfections, then your imaginary ideal soulmate will always remain pending till you grow old and die. – Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Youth culture today is cynical about love. And that cynicism has come from their pervasive feeling that love cannot be found. – Bell Hooks


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. – Michael Buble

Don’t rush into love. You’ll find the person meant for you when you least expect it. – Franzie Gubatina

Women often feel we are in a constant state of yearning, wanting to love but not receiving it. – Bell Hooks

Wait for the one with integrity. The one who loves your body but is enamored with your soul.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever. – Robert Browning


I’m not that type of gal who sits at home all day waiting for a guy. – Marni S. Feldman

If I don’t find you in this lifetime, I will wait for you until the next. – Butterflies Rising

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on what we’re waiting for. – Charles Stanley

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all. – Luanne Rice

If you are reading this, God is about to bless you for how long you had to wait for true love.


We all have many great loves but to find a soul mate, is the ultimate conquest. – Marni S. Feldman

I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds, but I think of you always in those intervals. – Salvador Plascencia

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

Waiting is a sign of true love and patience.

The right person will come, once you have suffered enough to deserve her. – Juvenal Lopez


We all have scars; it doesn’t mean we should give up on love. – Agnes Bonas

If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. – Princess Diana

God saves the best for the people who know how to wait; who are patient and kind always.

Your love made it all worth waiting for someone like you. – Criss Jami

Love is not about how long I can wait for someone but about how well I understand why I am waiting.


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.

You are the best thing I have waited for.

The course of true love never did run smooth. – William Shakespeare

When one pines and yearned for love / Then it’s good to pray to our lord above / Both God and love is needed that one maybe bound / As we try to make the mind very sound. – Hubert Winston Anderson

Maybe the heart is an organ on constant ready, always waiting to try again, always open to the next best thing. – Kate Ellison

There are people out there who are waiting to meet you. Waiting to love you. You have to stick around for them. – Benedict Smith

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. – Franz Kafka

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde

If we’re waiting for the most convenient time to say I LOVE YOU, we may never find one.

I only miss you when I’m breathing. – Jason Derulo


Real love trusts, mature love understands and true love waits. – Analiza Garcia

Never rush into a relationship. True love is bound to reveal itself sooner or later. – Jayden Hayes

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting. – J. G. Holland

One day, you will realize that waiting for love is the best decision you have ever made.

Trust the almighty. He’ll open up the right door at the right time. – Sophieya


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

It wasn’t my intention to love you that much. I did everything to show how much I care for you. But I guess you didn’t love me as much as I did. Even how hard I tried to hold you but you let me go. Urgh! That was painful. I still wait for you even [if] it takes years. – Aser Alas Jr.

I spent my early 20’s, searching for love without knowing what I was actually in search of. – R.H. Sin

Love is when you hold me / Love is when you wait for me / Love is the pulse, towards you, which pulls me. – Girish Bhake

Settle your heart, child, your time will come. One of these days you will meet eyes with someone who makes you feel so at home in the world you will think to yourself, Ah, there you are. – Beau Taplin, A Patient Heart


You attract the right things when you have a sense of who you are. – Amy Poehler

We all have many great loves but to find a soul mate, is the ultimate conquest. – Marni S. Feldman

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. – Paulo Coelho

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

Waiting for someone you love is never easy. Especially when the one you’re waiting for isn’t aware that you’re waiting.


Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite. – Austin O’Malley

I will wait for you as long as it takes. I will love you every moment across time. – Lauren Kate

If I am really a part of your dream, you’ll come back one day. – Paulo Coelho

The longer the wait, the sweeter the kiss.


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

My longing to find love did not make me lose my sense of reason or perspective. – Bell Hooks

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

What you have to understand is that with knowledge comes patience. The more you realize what real love is, the longer you’re willing to wait for it. – J.M. Storm

It’s not that I love waiting. I just love the person I’m waiting for.

One day, someone will walk into your life and make you see why it never worked out with anyone else.

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.

Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. – Woody Allen

If you chase love, you won’t catch it. If you rush into it, it won’t last.

I have enough patience to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes. – Lailah Gifty Akita


Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. – Maya Angelou

True love is always worth the wait.

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

You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions. – Lailah Gifty Akita

The right man comes at the right time. – Italian Proverb