Anticipation Quotes

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

~ Ashwin Sanghi

Best, perhaps to keep one's nickels forever in one's pockets, to savor delicious possibility over mundane experience.

~ Dexter Palmer

Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.

~ Naveed Baji

The thing about stereotyping is it's usually just throwing rocks into a crowd hoping to hit somebody who deserves it.

~ Criss Jami

Before you speak... I have already heard. Before you see... I had seen a million times. Before you reach... I came and departed, so is the way and life of a versatile soul.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The best is always worth waiting for. And once you taste it, no other taste will do.

~ T.f. Hodge

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.

~ Alexander Shulgin

Her fingertips reached to trace the damage, but he grasped her hand with his own. He leaned down, far enough that the dark ends of his hair brushed feather-light against her face, caught in her lashes.

~ Kelly Creagh

Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground solid beneath us. But then something crossed his face, a thought, a hesitation, and he shifted slightly. Not now. Not yet. It was something I'd done so often - weighing what I could afford to risk, right at that moment - that I recognized it instantly. It was like looking in a mirror.

~ Sarah Dessen

... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

~ Albert Camus

Ironically, just when she needed to get as much sleep as possible to prepare her for the next few days, her excited anticipation kept her awake long into the night.

~ Emily Arden

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

~ T Jay Taylor

I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine.

~ Kristie Levangie

Would that we could choose the last image we see before death closes our eyes forever to this world.

~ Nick Hirst

I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.

~ A.b. Shepherd

Danger will come upon us when it will. We can't stop it. We can only try to be prepared. There's no point in looking ahead to that danger and suffering its effects even before it comes to us.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

~ C.s. Lewis

He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy.

~ Amy Plum

The trick here is, while the actual pleasure begins to recede and blur, we simultaneously bring the imagined pleasure more fully into focus. And when we do, even the memory of the pleasure becomes more and more heightened and imagined, thus anticipation is increased. This kind of anticipation is the spiritual equivalent of a Cheeto and we want them to eat the whole bag.

~ Geoffrey Wood

And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they’ve lost, forever.

~ Geoffrey Wood

... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as the variable instruments of a pleasure that is always the same. Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman's company, or as the cause of the uneasiness which, in anticipation, one then feels. Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.

~ Marcel Proust

Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.

~ Spectator No. 7

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

~ Pawan Mishra

It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.

~ Serena Grey

...the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than kiss itself.

~ Stephenie Meyer

And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.

~ Caroline Kepnes

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

~ Norman Cousins

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

~ Gloria Swanson