Quotes About Anticipation

O joy not yet begun But only about to be, O sweet invisible unceasing wave Following me, following me, Through the sea-like grave!

I cannot write of things which even impassioned breath cannot utter. Autumn is coming with its days of gold, its days of reverie and of you—oh, such delightful hours that my heart burns within me at the anticipation.

Artforum hasn't arrived. A state of deep melancholy has taken hold of me. I see the world through a gray veil, not even the best of jokes can exact a smile from me. I could die right now and I wouldn't notice the difference. Or maybe I would.

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

What are we all waiting forgathered together like this on the public square?The Barbarians are coming today.

I was with book, as a woman is with child.

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

Ends happen fast, and often arrive before you've been warned they're coming.

Such a revolution of one's world, and of the world in general, threw its shadows ahead

Expressionism in art prophetically anticipated this subjective development, for all art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness.

Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man's fundamental outlook.

and entered the back of the building. She

He smiled in a perfunctory way—his eyes were elsewhere as Danielle walked past after dismounting—and said, "It'll get better tomorrow.

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it. —Anton Chekhov, Letter to Alexander Lazarev-Gruzinsky

Friday was a bad-news day. First Mrs. Tealso announced report cards were ready and everybody would return to homeroom for the last ten minutes of the day to receive theirs. Lots of kids groaned. Willie's stomach flip-flopped like a fish out of water. His marks might be as bad as last time. They could even be worse. Unless he'd done good work that he wasn't remembering. Or unless his teachers had gotten the Christmas spirit early.

No truth can be determined that concerns the future.

We cannot fight fortuna, only try to anticipate her whims and, if we're lucky, bend her to our will.

Al Czervik Hey everybody, we're all gonna get laid.

Querido amor, estou fazendo a minha parte: te esperar. Faça a sua: chegue

Whatever we're hoping to see, it never quite meets that bar.

Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes.

Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

The calm before the storm that might carry us all before it.

All romantic novels end the same way, but it's the process of getting there that provides all the enjoyment.