Michael Sheehan > Michael's Quotes

“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?”
― Robin Hobb, Renegade's Magic

“Some part of me can't wait to see what life's going to come up with next! Anticipation without the usual anxiety. And underneath it all is the feeling that we both belong here, just as we are, right now.”
― Alexander Shulgin

“The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair.”
― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

“..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“...anticipation of happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation.”
― Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress

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

“It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.”
― Serena Grey, Rebellion

“We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.”
― Albert Camus

“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

“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