impatient quotes

There are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
^2  In The Rambler.

   I long for the Person from Porlock To bring my thoughts to an end. I am growing impatient to see him I think of him as a friend.

- Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
  Selected Poems,'Thoughts About the Person from Porlock' (a reference to the'person from Porlock'mentioned in Coleridge's preliminary note to'Kubla Khan').

Surprised by joyimpatient as the wind I turned to share the transportOh! with whom But thee, deep buried in the silent tomb, That spot which no vicissitude can find? 928

-William Wordsworth
c.1812  'Surprised by joyimpatient as the wind', l.1^4 (published1815).The poet's second daughter, Catherine, who died inJune1812, is the'thee'referred to in the poem.