Quotes About Anticipation

The feeling was that just when things seemed all right, something bad was about to happen.

I've come to whisk you away to a land far, far—well, not that far away. I've reserved a table for two on the terrace in La Jolla. And then, who knows?" He clasped her hands.

Love is seldom what you expect

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

to hope was to expect

that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself

told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

It taught me to hope, said he, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before. Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

I am half agony, half hope.

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment.

One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned: and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.

She read with an eagerness which hardly left her power of comprehension, and from impatience of knowing what the next sentence might bring, was incapable of attending to the sense of the one before her eyes.

She began to curl her hair and long for balls

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

The promised notification was hanging over her head. The postman's knock within the neighbourhood was beginning to bring its daily terrors -and if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

Ansiaba su estima cuando ya no podía esperar obtenerla; necesitaba oirlo cuando no parecía existir la menor probabilidad de avenencia; estaba convencida de que habría sido dichosa a su lado, cuando no era probable que se produjera un nuevo encuentro entre ambos.

And are you prepared to encounter all the horrors that a building such as what one reads about may produce? Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry?

it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…

though I always imagined from her increasing friendship for us since her husband's death that we should, at some future period, be obliged to receive her.

aunque se deseara con impaciencia, un acontecimiento no traía consigo, al producirse, toda la satisfacción esperada.