Anticipation Quotes - Page 6

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet... [at least for your own situation. Blind optimism is just as foolish. The solution is a rigorously balanced, rational outlook.]

As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

A good restaurant just makes me giddy. I can go all day with anticipation just knowing where I'm going to eat. Sometimes it's well planned, sometimes it's spontaneous. Either way works.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Be happy in anticipation of what's coming.

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

We fear something before we hate.

Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.

We sometimes emphasize the danger in a crisis without focusing on the opportunities that are there.

Anxiety beclouds the future.

It's not over until it's over.

There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

Oh Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them," exclaimed Anne.

Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.

Depression is the flaw in love. There's no such thing as love without the anticipation of loss. And that specter of despair can be the engine of intimacy.

Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.