Quotes About Anticipation

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatched" is an error of ancient date, but it does not seem to improve by age.

They should raise the alcohol age to 60, so at least you'd have something to look forward to at this point.

All alone by the telephone.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

But in his dream he knew their way was prepared, and in their time they would rise up joyful.

expectations.

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

From everything that I'd read, End Timers were waiting for the collapse of civilization the way fans of the Twilight series awaited the trailer for Breaking Dawn.

They were built up to great expectations, and when these could not be met, they turned against those who made the promises.

she shivered and flushed. When she was pregnant

The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated from me since, was the birthday of our first hope.

I constantly see old people flushed and excited by the prospect of some anticipated pleasure which altogether fails to ruffle the tranquillity of their serene grandchildren. Are we, I wonder, quite such genuine boys and girls now as our seniors were in their time? Has the great advance in education taken rather too long a stride;

If you are as tired of reading this narrative as I am of writing it—Lord, how we shall enjoy ourselves on both sides a few pages further on!

Let the end come as it may, here I am ready to profit by it: here I am, facing both ways, with perfect ease and security - a moral agriculturist, with his eye on two crops at once, and his swindler's sickle ready for any emergency. For the next week to come, the newspaper will be more interesting to me than ever. I wonder which side I shall eventually belong to?

Oh, the future--it's always so fucking dated. For you, for me, for all of us. If only there were some way out of it.

Fear & Hope are — Vision

This is vexing: I feel in a kind of limbo - an author but not truly an author, true authorship being conferred by having a book physically published - a thing you can hold in your hand, purchase in a bookshop.

Wouldn't it be wiser to experience the day ahead and savour it, as if it were my last, and postpone for a while my appointment with my pills and my whisky until the moment comes when I don't feel like coping any more and all anticipation has gone?

Love without shadows stirs now beginning to waken as night advances. The descent made up of despairs and without accomplishment realizes a new awakening : which is a reversal of despair. For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation— a descent follows, endless and indestructible . Listen! — the pouring water! The dogs and trees conspire to invent a world—gone!

You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.

next year she would have another birthday, and if she just remembered to get into bed left foot first and to turn the pillow over before she went to sleep, who knows what might happen?

as though it had known to the second when I was to enter, had waited there during that entire twelve miles behind that walking mule and watched me draw nearer and nearer and enter the door at last as it had know (ay, decreed, since there is that justice whose Moloch's palate-paunch makes no distinction between gristle bone and tender flesh) that I would enter — …