Anticipation Quotes

“Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it, no paper notices on downtown posts and billboards, no mentions or advertisements in local newspapers. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Before or After? Fern:
Before, anticipation is usually better than the real thing.
Ambrose: After. The real thing, when done right, is always better
than a daydream. Fern wouldn't know, would she? She let that one
slide.”
― Amy Harmon, Making Faces

“Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?

- Epithalamion”
― Edmund Spenser, Amoretti And Epithalamion

“...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, Twilight

“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

“Don't anticipate for a promise, let it be an unexpected favour, this will increase your power of independence.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

“When you see someone on top, look away and don't try to bring him down, because he may someday help you reach the top.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“I never assume anything. I anticipate the possibilities and allow my imagination to create the future.”
― Lionel Suggs

“I felt like I was an arrow, pulled back and ready to be launched into something big.”
― A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat

“When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its own, because though the pattern was repeated it was in reverse order: the scattered schoolchildren who passed my window now were on their way home and there was something unrestrained and boisterous about them, whereas when they had walked past on their way to school in the morning they still bore the silent imprint of sleep and the innate wariness we feel toward things that have not yet begun.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

“After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over.

("New York Blues")”
― Cornell Woolrich, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich

“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

“I wait for this rare and fleeting event because I can't think of anything else worth waiting for.”
― Peter Davis, Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!

“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, The Conch Bearer

“I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace.”
― Lionel Suggs

“But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.”
― Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist

“I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.”
― Spectator no. 7

“Cursing will create a hole in a whole Heart.”
― Naveed baji

“Anticipation whets the wit, and wets the whistle.”
― Simon Peacock