"How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life."
Read quote
11 likes
Anticipation quotes
Anticipation
209 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Anticipation
Browse quotes that often appear alongside anticipation — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Anticipation quotes (page 2 of 11)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory."
Read quote
11 likes
"...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present."
Read quote
10 likes
"We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life."
Read quote
10 likes
"The center of every man's existence is a dream."
Read quote
10 likes
"Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force."
Read quote
10 likes
"Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation."
Read quote
10 likes
"Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home."
Read quote
9 likes
"Anticipation and Hope are born twins."
Read quote
9 likes
"No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Read quote
8 likes
"Anticipation is anxiety. I have always had a very extreme anxiety thing."
Read quote
8 likes
"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."
Read quote
8 likes
"There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner."
Read quote
8 likes
"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!"
Read quote
7 likes
"If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble."
Read quote
7 likes
"Anticipation of pleasure is, in itself, a very considerable pleasure."
Read quote
7 likes
"What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation."
Read quote
7 likes
"We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!"
Read quote
7 likes
"To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost."
Read quote
7 likes
"The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it."
Read quote
7 likes